12-03-2009, 03:11 PM
Learning to follow directions is itself a valuable skill, no doubt. But creating something new where nothing existed before is a much more valuable skill in my opinion. My Star Wars toys as a child consisted of re-manufactured cardboard boxes that my brother and I spent HOURS creating with glue, tape, markers, and crayons. And LEGOS - boxes and boxes of random LEGOS. I hated the kits and much preferred boxes of legos from yard sales that were just random blocks.