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Re: From the mouth of babes and just what is going on!?
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lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general
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Tue, 11 May 2004 19:53:21 GMT
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Troy Cefaratti wrote:
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> If you mean that Mel has influenced her daughter to be able to think for
> herself and make wise decisions, then I agree with you. Everything in her
> post does sound like she has raised her daughter to think for herself.
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> If you mean that Mel has influenced her daughter not to like the new grays,
> I fail to see such influence. Offering the child a choice of sets or cash
> of equal value for work done and letting them decide is hardly influential.
> This is how I pay my "sorters" as well, and it does generally depend on the
> sets at hand if they go for them or the cash. I've not yet parted out any
> sets with the new colors, so I don't know how they will react to them.
>
> Troy
I always find parents' assertions that their children "think for themselves" to
be dubious, as more often than not it's a euphamism for "I'm proud they think
just like me.." It's funny to see these same parents later on, when their
(now)teenagers continue to "think for themselves.." But that's neither here nor
there. :)
Of course we are all influenced by our parents. This is as it SHOULD be (they
are raising us, for goodness sake). I applaud Melanie for teaching her values to
her children.
I was just saying Melanie's experience is hardly an objective experiment - she
owns a Brick Link store, pays her child with LEGO for helping her, etc. Not
exactly a "pure" market research study - i.e. most kids don't notice the colors
because they handle far fewer bricks, or simply don't care (LEGO=toy, not
LEGO=$). Melanie herself acknowledges this in her post, but others' responses
seemed to miss this fact.
Darrell
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