| Manufacturers design remote control toys for a | | | | steering around things for a while, but not for long. |
| variety of age levels. As long as your child, or | | | | Missing stuff must've bored him, and soon he'd be right |
| grandchild, has enough dexterity to operate the | | | | back to ramming, and crashing. |
| controls, there's an RC toy out there to give that child | | | | Another thing I noticed is once he started operation of |
| a fun time. But sometimes you might wonder about | | | | that remote control he quickly became excited. He |
| the durability of that toy. | | | | started running around chasing after the car, not paying |
| Over the weekend two of my grandkids blessed me | | | | much attention to where his control unit's antennae |
| with a visit. My eleven -year-old granddaughter, and | | | | went, or what it hit. He punched that antennae right into |
| five-year-old grandson spent both Saturday and | | | | furniture, and walls, and bent it a couple times. Not a |
| Sunday at my house. The grandson didn't bring | | | | real big deal. I straightened the antennae back out, and |
| anything to play with, so I got out a couple of radio | | | | finally told him just to leave it telescoped in so it |
| control toys, a monster truck, and a racing car, and | | | | wouldn't hang up on anything. That worked a bit better. |
| handed over the controls to the kids. | | | | My granddaughter quickly mastered steering the |
| A few minutes later I wondered a little about my | | | | vehicles, and did a good job of operating the radio |
| decision to turn them loose with those remote control | | | | control - at least when her brother wasn't running into |
| vehicles. My grandson apparently thought that race car | | | | her model with his. She got frustrated with him a time |
| was destined for demolition derbies. He proceeded to | | | | or two though. |
| drive that car into every stationary object he could hit, | | | | Yes, there's a RC toy for most any age kid, you just |
| and he especially targeted the monster truck as his | | | | need understanding that the way the kids play differs |
| sister steered it around those same objects. | | | | with their age. |
| This particular race car has a designer's designated | | | | Sure, the older kids get rough sometimes, but my |
| operating age of 3-years and older, so I wasn't | | | | experience tells me that once they near, and pass into, |
| prepared for how a five year old would operate it. My | | | | their teen years (at least 11 or older), they drive like |
| other grandkids, those who have played with my RC | | | | they're practicing for a driver's license, and real world |
| models before, are teenagers, and they drive the | | | | driving. |
| vehicles non-aggressively, as did my 11-year old | | | | When you pull out those remotes for the younger kids |
| granddaughter this weekend. | | | | I suggest you make them your most rugged models. |
| But my 5-year old grandson was all crash and burn. | | | | At the end of the weekend I inspected the radio |
| I explained to him that he was running the wrong kind | | | | control vehicles. They had scrapes and nicks, but |
| of race with this car. "It's not made to run over things, | | | | overall didn't suffer the heavy damage I feared. |
| it's made for speeding to the finish line without hitting | | | | And those grandkids sure had a lot of fun with those |
| anything," I told him. | | | | remote control toys. |
| He didn't like that idea, I guess, because he'd try | | | | |