Another Movie Thread - Because We Love Them So

[kandrathe]

I'm going to try and enforce a "more lego less TV" rule in my house. I assume you are a big proponent of lego?

Only if you throw away the book of suggestions and just give the kids the Legos. Then sit back and enjoy all the relative "wrong" things they do with them.

Interestingly enough...

My eldest son's brain isn't wired that way. If you give him a box of generic Lego's he muddles around for awhile, and eventually builds something interesting. But, if you give him a complex design, and the same box of Lego's he'll snap it together faster than most people can think. He has an amazing capacity for pattern matching, and visual spacial analysis. But, he would totally flounder if you asked him to plan, or put together a list of things he needs to get done in the next week. It also results in conflict with his younger brother who *only* likes to work outside the box, where the elder one reworks the younger ones designs to "fix" them.

As a toddler we noticed that he didn't engage in creative play, and that if we showed him how to play with a toy then he would play with it only in the ways we showed him. According to the brain testing we had done on him this spring, he has an incredible potential to be very creative, however this deficiency/delay in cerebellar development is preventing him from planning his creativity. We are working to help improve that issue through physical therapy through (of all things) riding horses, and the Belgau balance board (DORE Method).