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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS is 4 years old and has never been into LEGO or really any building toys/activities (blocks, duplo, magnatiles, etc.).  If he receives a set, he'll engage in assembling it with assistance, but he has no interest in spending time creating things.  FWIW, he's not a huge fan of puzzles, either, though he can do them.  Loves pretend play, still loves his cars, train sets, action figures, all things super hero, riding his scooter.  He's doing well in preschool, though has lagged a bit with fine motor so I assume this could be part of it, and at 3 we learned he was extremely farsighted so needed glasses, which could have played a role as well (though that should be resolved by now).  I know all kids are different, but with such an emphasis on building toys these days I feel like we're a bit of a failure....and of course I fear he is doomed to a life of sucking at math.  Anyone with a reassuring story about their non-LEGO loving kid?[/quote]

Absolutely NOT a problem. The LEGO type of blocks are very limiting at this age and many kids find them very frustrating, it is very rigid and limiting way of thinking that comes with this type of structure building and truly creative kids just don't care much about them. Truly creative kid thinks outside the blocks and box that the Legos force them to think into.
A creative kid will take a tape and sticks and a paper and glue and will make truly magnificent structure in quarter of the time the boring lego blocks would take. The true art and creation are within the artist and architect and not within the blocks.

What the Lego does is tells your kid,.. here use those bricks and build something that someone before you decided you have to build. How is this creative?

Don't worry about this. This is truly limiting medium and your kid can go very far in the world that is full of forms that are not so predesigned. Think free spirit. Lego to the mind is like painting by numbers to art. Imagine what would David look like if Michealangelo has been given a task of using only small cubes of Marble.  :lol: [/quote]

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