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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 5789765" data-attributes="member: 8835">hmm.  I grew up on legoes.  So much so, that even in pre-school, they actually complained to my mom that all I played with was legos.  She pointed out that I was building every other toy possible with the legos.As such, my observation from the findings is:the Japs are idiots.  Legos encourage engineering skills.  Of all the toys to hand your kid, a box of legos is on the top of the list.Not that the Japanese are slackers in the engineering department, but the Germans also rock at that point.  Imagine if the Japs hadn't been so foolish to turn down the education toy, in favor of what?  Transformers?I was building transformers out of Legos the moment I saw my first transformer toy.  Figuring out how to build the articulation from very basic lego pieces was part of the challenge.As to their observation that the quick build kits were crap,  Duh!  The value of the product was the work it took to build someething.  Additionally, the engineering possible because you build big things from little things meant you had that granularity availble for custom projects.  Big components limit that option almost as bad as those DuPlo blocks.The whole movement that kids can't pay attention anymore is monkey crap.  They don't want to pay attention in school.  Every ADD kid I've heard of seems perfectly fine sitting at a computer or console for hours at a time.  The problem ain't inability to pay attention.  Genuine ADD exists I'm sure, but if yer kid exhibits the ability to focus on HIS interests, he ain't got ADD.It was surprising about the skate board kid.  I would not have thought kids are observant enough of details to denote wear and tear to its mastery of a trick.  Particularly given the life-cycle of a kid shoe is so short that it would be impossible for it to be displayed for more than a year.As to the contrast of american kids to european kids on roaming outdoors and decorating rooms, I would have thought that was the reverse.While in the current century, I've met parents who were more restrictive on the roaming of their kids, generally, Americans are notorious for letting their kids roam until dark and letting them kill each other with homemade bows and arrows in the vacant lot.</blockquote>

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