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Re: Is too much lego play time for kids a bad thing?
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Thu, 26 Sep 2002 00:20:50 GMT
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First of all, I want to thank everyone who replied. I never thought people
would respond so quickly and with such good advise. I would like to follow
up by stating that my almost 3 year old does not put Lego in his mouth
anymore. (Except for the usual prying heads off mini figures) Long ago,
my wife set up a “hide out” which is basically an area of his bedroom
barricaded off so that our one year old son cant get in and eat the smaller
Lego bricks.
My older son does have many other interest including movies, tinker toys,
star wars, Disney films and storybooks of all kinds. Lego is by far his
favorite but he still makes time for many other activities.
I spend very little time building “my” Lego stuff when he is awake. When he
is awake and we build stuff together I basically look for interesting parts
and just hand them over to him. He then places them in unbelievable
positions. He has taught me and reminded me many times about the
versatility of the entire system.
I have decided that I should just take it easy and let him do his thing and
stop worrying about it.
Thanks for all the great input,
Bob Gomez
in response to:
In lugnet.general, Bob Gomez writes:
> Dear fellow AFOL's and parents,
>
> I have a 2 year old son (almost 3) and a 1 year old son. I have a concern
> about my almost 2 year old son. This is my concern. I have lots of Lego in
> the house. I have set up my son with a bunch of lego probably 1000 pieces
> that I got at a garage sale for him to play with. My concern is that he
> spends alot of time playing with them. I work all day, my wife is home with
> the kids and I have noticed that some days he spends several hours, like 5
> or 6 hours a day playing with them. He loves to make little rocket ships for
> all his Lego men to fly around in. He also loves to play with my pirate
> ships that I rebuild for him after work on a daily basis. In general, he
> just loves to play with the Lego stuff all day. I find it fascinating to see
> what he builds and "how" he plays with them. I know it’s a good thing and I
> also know that it’s better than watching TV.
>
> My concern is that it seems obsessive. Maybe I’m crazy. When I was a kid I
> also spent alot of time playing with Lego and I know it did me no harm. I’m
> a pretty new parent and I just wanted to see if anyone else has had these
> types of feelings.
>
> I guess the big difference is that when I was a kid my dad did not have
> 65000 Lego bricks in the house for me to play with. He also did not "want"
> to play with them as much as I do. To me it just seems like its all kind of
> too much.
>
> I’m sure many of you will respond that "there is no such thing as too much",
> but I have a real concern about this.
>
> Thanks for any advise/experience that you may have.
>
> Bob Gomez
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| Dear fellow AFOL's and parents, I have a 2 year old son (almost 3) and a 1 year old son. I have a concern about my almost 2 year old son. This is my concern. I have lots of Lego in the house. I have set up my son with a bunch of lego probably 1000 (...) (22 years ago, 24-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)
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