I spent a fortune on presents for my toddler but his favourite ‘toy’ cost nothing, he carries it around everywhere
A MUM who splashed out on new toys for her toddler has revealed his favourite ‘gift’ – an empty cardboard box.
Emma O’Donnell, from Glasgow, picked up presents including a sit-on digger, police car and ice cream truck for son Harry’s Christmas.
But she joked she has a lesson to learn after her two-year-old son spent the whole festive season playing with an empty box.
Posting on Instagram (@a_mothers_tale), the 35-year-old – a social media blogger – showed “what we bought our two-year-old for Christmas vs his new fave toy”.
She then shared clips of the adorable tot sitting inside the box, taking it for a walk and jumping over it.
Emma said: “I’d like to say lessons have been learned … but they most likely have not.
“Truth be told he loves the ice cream cart – but that piece of cardboard is getting a little too much airtime for my liking.
“Can’t complete with a bit of box appeal.”
She added: “Going to replay this to myself at every Christmas and birthday going forward.”
And her fellow parents feel her pain.
One said: “Yup! Skip the expensive toys. Just buy a shipment that will be a big box.”
Another wrote: “We can 100% relate.”
A third said: “Lol sounds about right. Cardboard boxes are great fun.”
Meanwhile, a fourth agreed: “They always love the boxes more than anything else.”
We told earlier how Emma was cruelly trolled online for sharing videos of her breastfeeding her two-year-old son – with people saying she should be locked up and is abusing him.
The mum openly shows her breastfeeding journey with her youngest son Harry, two, but can’t believe the backlash she has recently received.
She said: “It’s funny because the video is talking about weaning and how I’m trying to stop breast feeding, but apparently I should be locked up for doing something so natural and normal.
“It is such a shame because women’s bodies are objectified so much, people have lost touch with what they are really for. We are made to feed and support our babies.
“There is a serious lack of communication, people think they should stop breastfeeding at six months, when in some cultures children are breastfed until they are seven.
“That’s why children have milk teeth. Breast feeding a two and a half year old is not wrong.
“However a lot of the time I get women coming and speaking to me about breastfeeding as they are judged for it and deterred for wanting to carry on breastfeeding.
“My videos give them the courage to know they’re not alone and that’s why I post about it.
“People have lost themselves and what normal is.”