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my 6 year olds obsession with dnosaurs and dragons (toothless)

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My 6 year old little princess is OBSESSED with dinosaurs since the day she could talk! I love listening to her talking about them, she can tell you literally anything! All the different names of them, whether they are carnivours or plant eaters, their characteristics, EVERYTHING! She has a massive box of dinosaurs which she will line up in order of 'breed' from mummys to babies too! And the way she talks about them with so much passion is just so lovely to listen to!! Has anyone else got this obsession??

And the new one is Toothless from How to Train Your Dragon! She has all the toys and the teddies, even the build a bear toothless as her comfort (she twiddles the tag too when nervous/tired). She tells me (in a very matter of fact voice) that dinosaurs and dragons are not alive anymore and so she likes reptiles, as they are the closest thing to them now.

After being to a psycyatrist and social comms doctor i was advised that I should limit her conversations about her obsessions to a few times a day, in a way it is sad, because i love it as her personality comes out and she shows so much confidence with the fact she knows so much, but on the other hand i understand it is an obsession and a behaviour she has to reduce in order to help with her social anxiety and broaden her communication skills.

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  • Personally, I'd not try to quash an intrest, but to widen it.

    But I am biassed, becase my parents encoraged my intrest in dinosaurs, which in turn gave way to an intrest in life sciences (via evolution) and circled back from paleantology to geology via deep time and geological record.

    Geology is a good feild to be pasionate about for me beause its so broad, runs the gamut from physics and chemistry on the minerological mico-end, to metrology and ecology, and it rests deeply on paleantological roots just as paleantology depends on an understanding of geological processes.

    Same with my intrest in mythology. She's got an intrest in dragons? that gives you european legends, chinese mythology, the particular film (If its the film I cant speak of the book to my arguable shame) gives you Norse myth, and the Norse mythological cannon is one of the richest and moast vivid I have encounterd.

    I hesatate to sugest this but, have you conciderd role playing games like dungeons and dragons? looking back much of the mathematics at my easy command I learned playing D&D, and as she seems to have no issue telling fantasy from reality it couild help widen her sphere of intrest.

    Oh, and it may intrest your daughter to know that *technically* Dinosaurs were not reptiles, but rather their closest modern analoge would be birds. This amoung other things means when we eat chicken, we are eating a dinosaur.

    ( a few citations, just to bea good scientist, I've tried to favour accessable sorces of good repute:-
    National Geographic: phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/.../

    Scientific american: www.scientificamerican.com/.../

    and one that apears to be from a US University, Berkeley rings a bell but I cant be sure of its exact provenance: www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/.../avians.html )

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  • Personally, I'd not try to quash an intrest, but to widen it.

    But I am biassed, becase my parents encoraged my intrest in dinosaurs, which in turn gave way to an intrest in life sciences (via evolution) and circled back from paleantology to geology via deep time and geological record.

    Geology is a good feild to be pasionate about for me beause its so broad, runs the gamut from physics and chemistry on the minerological mico-end, to metrology and ecology, and it rests deeply on paleantological roots just as paleantology depends on an understanding of geological processes.

    Same with my intrest in mythology. She's got an intrest in dragons? that gives you european legends, chinese mythology, the particular film (If its the film I cant speak of the book to my arguable shame) gives you Norse myth, and the Norse mythological cannon is one of the richest and moast vivid I have encounterd.

    I hesatate to sugest this but, have you conciderd role playing games like dungeons and dragons? looking back much of the mathematics at my easy command I learned playing D&D, and as she seems to have no issue telling fantasy from reality it couild help widen her sphere of intrest.

    Oh, and it may intrest your daughter to know that *technically* Dinosaurs were not reptiles, but rather their closest modern analoge would be birds. This amoung other things means when we eat chicken, we are eating a dinosaur.

    ( a few citations, just to bea good scientist, I've tried to favour accessable sorces of good repute:-
    National Geographic: phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/.../

    Scientific american: www.scientificamerican.com/.../

    and one that apears to be from a US University, Berkeley rings a bell but I cant be sure of its exact provenance: www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/.../avians.html )

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