Comments on: Rachel’s Big Kid Blogging: Kids and Boxes

By: sm fan

sm fan — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:49:05 +0000

Bring back Syd and Maddox!!

By: Barbara P

Barbara P — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:37:19 +0000

Our cats love boxes too. Is it related?

By: SamChevre

SamChevre — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:42:49 +0000

Children usually love boxes. I’m not sure why, but I think the fact that things like being under a table, in an improvised tent, and so forth also seem especially fun to children is probably related.

By: Ampersand

Ampersand — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:38:00 +0000

Sydney loves boxes. She loves crawling into them and closing the lid, especially. Not sure why, but you’re right, Rachel, it seems to be a fairly universal kid thing.

By: Doug S.

Doug S. — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:12:59 +0000

Cardboard boxes make for interesting toys. They also make for useful infiltration tools in the Metal Gear series of video games. The games also makes fun of themselves regarding the power of the cardboard box; this particular piece of dialogue is rather funny.

Sigint: Uh, Snake… What are you doing?

Snake: I’m in a box.

Sigint: A cardboard box? Why are you…?

Snake: I dunno. I was just looking at it and I suddenly got this urge to get inside. No, not just an urge - more than that. It was my destiny to be here; in the box.

Sigint: Destiny…?

Snake: Yeah. And then when I put it on, I suddenly got this feeling of inner peace. I can’t put it into words. I feel… safe. Like this is where I was meant to be. Like I’d found the key to true happiness.

Sigint: …

Snake: Does any of that make sense?

Sigint: Not even a little.

Snake: You should come inside the box… Then you’ll know what I mean.

Sigint: Man, I don’t wanna know what you mean! Between you and Para-Medic, is everyone but me that is hooked up with the Major strange!?

Snake: …

Sigint: Yeah, well, anyway, I suppose even that dumbass box might make a decent disguise if you wear it inside a building.

By: KateL.

KateL. — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:45:33 +0000

I could say the same thing about laundry and laundry baskets. Around the same time the box fascination happened for Maya, the laundry fascination began. We have lots of pictures of her playing in laundry baskets - both empty and full.

I agree with the above - a box is anything at all and with endless possibilities comes super fun times :)

By: mingerspice

mingerspice — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 03:39:38 +0000

My favorite Calvin and Hobbes were always the ones where Calvin was doing something with a cardboard box.

My preferred kid-time playthings were always couch cushions.

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By: Elaine Vigneault

Elaine Vigneault — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:00:02 +0000

You know what the best boxes are? Refrigerator boxes! I lived down the street from a business that for some reason always had these big boxes. We took them and turned them into cars, tents, and all kinds of things. So fun!

By: joe

joe — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:53:33 +0000

A box can be anything you want it to be. My daughter was playing in a moving box. Within about 20 minutes she told me she was a cat, driving a car, in her new house, and hiding.

Also, I think boxes are NEW. leave it out for a while and see how long the magic lasts.