12-03-2009, 02:54 PM
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"Then there’s the ever-growing popularity and educational allure of so-called construction toys, like Legos; for them, building is supposed to be part of the point and part of the fun. Many such kits are no longer designed for open-ended, creative building, but rather to construct a precise model based on a licensed movie theme, for example 'Star Wars' or 'Transformers.' If a child can’t recreate the spaceship or warrior by following pages of directions, it is up to the parents to do it."
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In other words, the author couldn't follow the directions and his kids and the neighbor kids have never let him forget about his incapacities.
Kids couldn't posssibly be learning to follow directions nor toning thier cognitive recognitions.
Maybe his kids will learn to write meaningless tripe and actually make a living doing it.
"Then there’s the ever-growing popularity and educational allure of so-called construction toys, like Legos; for them, building is supposed to be part of the point and part of the fun. Many such kits are no longer designed for open-ended, creative building, but rather to construct a precise model based on a licensed movie theme, for example 'Star Wars' or 'Transformers.' If a child can’t recreate the spaceship or warrior by following pages of directions, it is up to the parents to do it."
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In other words, the author couldn't follow the directions and his kids and the neighbor kids have never let him forget about his incapacities.
Kids couldn't posssibly be learning to follow directions nor toning thier cognitive recognitions.
Maybe his kids will learn to write meaningless tripe and actually make a living doing it.