C is 12 today! Wonder how that happened? I am not old enough to have a 12 year old am I? Anyway, he worked ahead on school so he could have the day off and now he is happily playing with his birthday Lego set, one he has waited almost 7 months for, since it came out and he saw it in a magazine. If you can imagine, it is a farm set and he REALLY wanted it badly!
The other set is a camper from K. For years they have worked at creating a camper and made all kinds of varieties of them, and now they have a set that is a "real" camper with beds, chairs etc all in the vehicle.
I am delighted that at 12 he would rather play with Legos and use his imagination that play video games. I love that my kids love their toys still. I really think that brains develop so much better when they are playing with things like that than if they are just interacting with a machine.
K is wildly jealous that C gets to have his birthday off...so we may have to create a "holiday" for K when his birthday comes around so he can have the same privilege. The only class C will do today is Spanish, since he needs to do that every day, but that class is like a game. It is amazing, the program is Power Speak. It is really an interesting way to teach language but he is having fun with it so that is great.
I think it's very impressive that he would rather use his imagination to create things than playing video games, etc! I can't believe how many (especially younger) kids don't know how to "play" because all they do is computer games / video games / tv!
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