To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.generalOpen lugnet.general in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 General / 48594
48593  |  48595
Subject: 
Re: A first step
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.general
Date: 
Wed, 28 Jul 2004 00:54:17 GMT
Viewed: 
3832 times
  
"Mark Jordan" <mark.jordan@oracle.com> wrote in message
news:I1G0KI.vK2@lugnet.com...
> Yesterday was a wonderful first for our family. My 20 month-old daughter
> attached 2 2*4 bricks together for the first time!
> 
> Its great to see the delighted look on her face when I open the box of • basic
> bricks with its bags of pretty colours, the zooming sound (copied from me) • she
> makes when I build her a plane out of 7 2*4 bricks, and finally the look • of
> concentration she got when she started trying to get the two bricks • together.
> 
> A wonderful moment! Maybe now she will be more interested in her Duplo.

Congratulations!  Wonderful news.

> My mother-in-law told me I shouldn't build Lego in front of my daughter. • She
> thinks my massive colour coordinated, SNOT, themed and witty creations • will give
> my daughter an inferiority complex and stunt her Lego development.
> 
> Does anyone have an opinion on this? Does excessive AFOL enthusiasm cause
> problems for the kids?

Is the mother-in-law kind of cool on the idea of you being an AFOL?  All the
children I've met at public meetings in all the years I've been been a club
member (whether they're AFOL kids or not) have been unilaterally inspired
and amazed by what they see, but never intimidated.  Even I can remember
that I never felt daunted by the huge official Lego displays either.  I just
remember thinking:  "If I had enough bricks someday, I could build that
too!"

DinosaurDave



Message is in Reply To:
  A first step
 
Yesterday was a wonderful first for our family. My 20 month-old daughter attached 2 2*4 bricks together for the first time! Its great to see the delighted look on her face when I open the box of basic bricks with its bags of pretty colours, the (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)

10 Messages in This Thread:







Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR