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<blockquote data-quote="trinityroyal" data-source="post: 351182" data-attributes="member: 3907"><p>One of Little easy child's favourite toys (aside from cardboard boxes of course) is a set of wooden blocks painted in primary colours. There are several different basic shapes, and he builds all sorts of things with them all the time. The other day he was building a house and needed bedding for the bedrooms. We worked together to figure out what would make the best bedding and then made a bunch of pillows and blankets out of folded bits of paper towel. Those bed linens now live in the box with the blocks, and he uses them all the time.</p><p></p><p>I really think children lose out on so much when all the discovery of playing is done for them. Even Lego has changed from the way it was when I was a child. It used to be that you got a box of assorted lego bricks and figured out what you wanted to make from them. Now, lego comes in kits with diagrams and detailed instructions. You can build a plane or a Star Wars tri-fighter or whatever, but it's much harder to just make it up as you go along.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trinityroyal, post: 351182, member: 3907"] One of Little easy child's favourite toys (aside from cardboard boxes of course) is a set of wooden blocks painted in primary colours. There are several different basic shapes, and he builds all sorts of things with them all the time. The other day he was building a house and needed bedding for the bedrooms. We worked together to figure out what would make the best bedding and then made a bunch of pillows and blankets out of folded bits of paper towel. Those bed linens now live in the box with the blocks, and he uses them all the time. I really think children lose out on so much when all the discovery of playing is done for them. Even Lego has changed from the way it was when I was a child. It used to be that you got a box of assorted lego bricks and figured out what you wanted to make from them. Now, lego comes in kits with diagrams and detailed instructions. You can build a plane or a Star Wars tri-fighter or whatever, but it's much harder to just make it up as you go along. [/QUOTE]
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