Don't call me baby

[venta]

I require some assistance from the baby-aware among you, please. In a couple of weeks a sprog for whom I ought to buy a birthday present will be one. What does one give a one year old ? A boy, though I suspect that's not that relevant.

A while ago I happened on a craft stall selling nice wooden puzzles, and bought a brightly coloured, chunky jigsaw in the shape of a sealion. It has, I think, seven or eight pieces. Unfortunately, I'm now wondering whether perhaps that might be too babyish. Is he likely to be beyond it already ? What I know about the developmental stages of children could be written in quite large letters on a postage stamp.

So, er, any ideas ? If you were one year old, what would you want ? If you had a one year old, what would you want other people to give to it ?

Comments

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

That sounds like about the right thing for a one year old. He will quite possibly still be teething slightly, walking or starting to think about walking, understand a large part of what he's told. The complicatedness of jigsaws only starts being important at about 4 - until then the main criterion seems to be whether the pieces are small enough to choke on when chewed/force fed to the cat.