Anonymous wrote:LEGO is worth the money, as long as you don’t go overboard. I bought a $20 set a month ago (bricks and gears set) that my kids have spent hours upon hours playing with since then.
It is also worth it because (for me at least, and it sounds like for you, too) it is one of the more fun things to do with my kid. I am much happier to sit down and build LEGOs with them than almost anything else, which is worth quite a bit to me.
The sets that come in the yellow boxes that are intended to have enough stuff to be open ended but also have instructions for lots of little builds you can make with them have been the most worthwhile for us so far.