Your Children

[Anonymous]

I just got into this after many years because I bought a set for my 4 year old. He's a John Deere freak and WalMart had the Athearns John Deere train set for 30 bucks. I couldn't pass it up. He was ecstatic when we set it up.
I showed him how to use the rerailer and the throttle now he's the engineer while I work on scenery or structures for the layout.
My 15 year old and 14 year old are not so enthusiastic but we're working on them :-)

[simon1966]

Just for kick's I thought I would drag this thread from the distant past as lots of new members have joined and many, (Hi Spacemouse), are getting the kids active in the hobby.

My boys are now 5 and 7. Over the last 4 years model RR has given them so much. They are careful enough that I am happy to let them play on their own in the train room. My 5 year old will go in there on his own and pull a train, using a Walthers work caboose as a stand in locomotive, around the tracks for hours at a time. He would rather do this than "run trains" I worry that trees will get snapped off, but he really takes care. When he tires of that, upstairs he goes and pushes wooden trains around instead. The boys have learned patience, they have learned basic model assembly, they weather their own Athern BB kits and I have found a huge ammount of pleasure in doing things with them that we all enjoy. So one year on, how are things going with your kids and trains?