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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 21:44:23 GMT
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Darrell Urbien wrote:
> In lugnet.dear-lego, Troy Cefaratti wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
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> 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.
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> Darrell
Darrell,
You point is well taken. However, their choices of what particular
sets/colors/parts they choose to like or dislike are well beyond my powers of
influence. I can't stand Bionicle and they both know this, yet they both love
Bionicle and own plenty and make a game out of teasing me. My dislike has had
absolutely no impact. (I wouldn't try either because truth be told, I don't
really care which Lego they do or don't like anymore than I care what flavor of
ice cream they prefer.)
Has their work for me made them a bit more Lego Savy than some other kids their
age? To a some degree maybe, I honestly think what savy they have comes from
their love of the toy. Long before I had a store, (dark ages) my daughter could
tell you the contents of almost every Belville set ever made and my son would
spend hours reading Lego catalogs etc and knew all the names and assemblies of
the minifigs. I didn't even now the figs had names! (How's that for ignorance?)
Lego has existed in our house for 13 years (bought the first set when my son was
3) as the #1 toy of choice for both kids--we're talking countless hours of
playing with no other toys--Duplo came home and Play Skool gathered dust. My
days as a seller only began 3 years ago so their experiences and knowledge
pre-date me by 10 years.
Given both kids long history of Lego addiction I'd say I have a better chance of
persuading them not to like chocolate ice cream than to influence their personal
Lego preferences.
Thanks,
Melanie
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