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[quote=Anonymous]These kits and activity gifts have more to do with the KID than the parent. For all the parents on this thread who are congratulating themselves for being “hands on” and “involved”, good for you. I am glad you won the lottery by having a kid who enjoys the same type of paint by number, build a robot, Lego, soap making and model building projects you do.

I have one kid who has never met at Kiwi Crate or Mark Roper box he doesn’t love. He was building age 12+ Lego sets when he was 5. He can easily follow instructions and has the spacial reasoning skills to interpret even the weirdest most poorly written manuals. For him these kit gifts foster independence because he enjoys the process of making them and wants to do it independently.

My other kid doesn’t want to make the craft, he just wants the finished product. He doesn’t want to make a Lego car, he wants to play with it. He is also very social and doesn’t want to make a kit independently - he wants to share the experience with someone else and work as a team. He doesn’t enjoy the process beyond the social experience of working together. He would much rather go for a hike with me than build a robot or make a craft. That’s not bad. It’s just different.

I don’t think anything is wrong with kids who don’t like doing projects and kits - or parents who don’t enjoy doing them with their kids. If you have a kit loving kid -parent duo like my oldest child and myself it may be hard to recognize that other families don’t feel the same way about your “great” gift. [/quote]

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