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Age Group
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Action
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Is This Advantagious
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Comments
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5-12
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Bore friends with baby pictures
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No
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Outlived their cuteness
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5-12
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Sundry expenses - clothes, food, outings etc.
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No
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Starting to want "name" labels - can still be bought off with lollies in exchange so far
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5-12
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Feed ducks at the local park
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Yes
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Starting to lose its appeal unless the pool or football/netball field is nearby
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5-12
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Find things you dropped on the ground
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Yes
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Getting better at understanding what you are looking for, but more reluctant to help
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5-12
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Go to children's films
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Yes
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Parents have an excuse for going to kids films without feeling guilty
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5-12
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Go to the Royal Easter Show
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Yes
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Starting to become expensive
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5-12
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Mother can give up work
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Yes
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NOTE - PAID WORK. Plenty of non paid work at home or helping at school
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5-12
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Mow your lawns
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Yes
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Useful for this task in the second half of this time - bribery often useful in getting work done
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5-12
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Nervous breakdowns - theirs or yours
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No
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Getting to be of an age likely to cause the first of yours.
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5-12
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Play in the park
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Yes
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An excellent excuse to get out of the house
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5-12
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Playing with toys in shops
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Yes
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A good excuse to be able to try out all the latest kids games and toys
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5-12
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Strain on the food chain
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No
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This is when you notice that your food bill had tripled
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5-12
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Teach adults new words
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No
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At this stage they start to bring home some new and rather interesting words - unfortunately they also seem to know
what they mean!
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5-12
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Interrupt social activities
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No
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Can seriously interrupt your drinking time if you don't have understanding grandparents or neighbors
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5-12
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Create the need for extra phone lines
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Yes
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Not yet but coming soon - start saving.
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5-12
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Useful as an excuse to end phone conversations
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Yes
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Bound to be doing something that requires your immediate and personal intervention
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5-12
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Costs of their hobbies
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No
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Starting to want to collect things - especially card sets that never get completed
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5-12
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Cost of birthday presents, Christmas presents,
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No
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Getting more expensive and bigger - they want everything that the other kids have got.
parties etc.
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5-12
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Noisy
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No
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Have learnt the power of their lungs - and use it often - the more bodies in this age group the louder the noise
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