You are right Guest, my younger child is 11. Depends what you class as expensive/inexpensive I guess. I have to say that my daughter was reading this thread over my shoulder this morning and said in horror "A computer for a 3 year old??!"

The mother of two of my children's contemporaries at school was working overtime to buy her son, then aged 10, £1000 worth of quad-bike for Christmas. The child would have been far better to have her time. She was getting it because 'other kids had them'. The particular child and his sister were given 'things' of quite high value on a regular basis and valued them not the slightest.

Love Lynne