02-14-2010, 02:50 PM
good topic my friend. i have had my daughter in my maskroom daily since she was about 3 months old. i didn't want her to be frightened of any of my stuff so i would encourage her to touch them and pick them up (when she was big enough to do it wihout dropping them). she is now almost three and all was well, then one day we went downstairs for our daily maskroom visit, she stopped dead in her tracks and said "scary daddy". i seriously almost started crying. so, calmly i tried to explain to her that the masks were just rubber, they could not hurt her and they are nothing to be scared of, blah, blah, blah, she was not having it. after all my hard work i had been taken out at the knees by something unknown to me. so i did some investigation, well, my mother in law was watching the kids the day before and apparently they were playing downstairs and my daughter wanted grandma to take her in the maskroom and grandma said that she didn't want to go in there because it was "scary". so, for the last 3 months or so, damage control, i have been going downstairs with my daughter and i would be in the maskroom and she would play in another part of the basement but i would leave the door open. every once in a while she would peak in and then go back to playing. it took a while but she now comes in and plays a little but doesn't seem frightened of anything in there. she loves my masks again. don't force them and curiousity will get the better of them. i had to sit down with the mother in law and let her know the deal. while i really don't want her in there anymore that she wants to be in there, if my daughter wants to go in, just take her in for a minute, and don't call it scary or anything that would frighten her away from my hobby because it is very important to me. she is a cool lady and agreed to follow my rules.i have a 6 month old and i am doing the same thing with her. my oldest even already has her own pt 3 SSN hok and a NAG clean scarred myers mask, and she loves them. check out the pics. mike<img src=\"http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h124/msharrow1414/IMG_0986.jpg\" border=\"0\" class=\"linked-image\" /><img src=\"http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h124/msharrow1414/IMG_0120-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" class=\"linked-image\" />