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Parents and Lego (was Re: Castle Ctuniie-My first castle MOC!!!!!)
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Wed, 5 Jun 2002 23:22:43 GMT
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My parents border on the edge of 'at least your not playing video games and
watching TV' to 'your acting half insane building and buying all these Lego
pieces.' It makes for an interesting mix. I don't get much reaction from
(other)kids, but the usual "look, Leygos" interest exists. Of coarse, I pay
for all my purchases with my 3.50 a week allowance. I spend everything on
Lego, I just blew away $50 on bricklink. I'm glad that Lugnet exists, too.
It seems that no AFOL (or KFOL, besides me) lives in any of the imediate
area of Jacksonville, Florida. Though you can't belive how long it took me
to convince my parents to let me post here on Lugnet! I've been reading for
about a year, though...
All in all, my parents take a catious attitude about Lego, as if its a stock
that might crash suddenly but will probablly get larger.
John Kruer (whose twelve, without a digital camera)
In lugnet.castle, David Eaton writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Bruce Hietbrink writes:
> > In lugnet.castle, William Braun writes:
> > > My parents dont approve of legos, so i had to save my own money.
> >
> > --Shakes head-- I never understand it when people say this. How could
> > parents not approve of Legos? ...[snip]... Would parents rather have their
> > kids play video games and watch TV?
>
> Yes and no :(
> In the case of my parents, they were afraid I was wierd or something. I
> think they just wanted assurance that I'd be a "normal kid", and not have
> some sort of emotional problems. So in that regard, perhaps they WOULD
> rather their kid play video games and watch TV. But my guess is, from an
> *educational* and/or *developmental* standpoint, that they'd rather have
> their kids play with Lego than TV & games. I suppose such parents would
> ultimately want kids who played sports, hung out with friends, liked
> reading, and did their school work without a fuss-- perhaps even enjoying
> it, or at the least finding it interesting.
>
> I remember getting flak from other kids who knew I still had a Lego
> collection in my room back when I was 13 or so. Not that I personally wasn't
> getting flak *anyway* because I wasn't popular, but I remember seeing at as
> some sort of weakspot. In retrospect though, I'd call it a strength. I wish
> I would've had the guts to say "So what? I like building with 'em." But
> alas, I just didn't have the self-confidence to do it. I bent under the
> pressure from my parents and other kids, putting my collection away in the
> attic until my senior year of high school, when I almost started getting the
> willpower to admit that I liked Lego.
>
> And oddly enough, now it's cool. People I meet are seemingly always
> interested and fascinated by my hobby. If they've seen work I've done (NELUG
> displays are frequent enough), they're often impressed, and 9 times out of
> 10 end up thinking more highly of me for having a creative hobby. (And an
> apparently successful one at that, considering some of the places NELUG (and
> some of my own) stuff has been displayed.)
>
> I suppose this is just preaching to the choir, but on the off chance you're
> some parent worried that your kid is gonna end up wierd because they still
> build with Lego, don't worry. Building with Lego will only improve the
> person you're going to become. And a little bit of uniqueness is a valuable
> thing!
>
> DaveE
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