http://www.empoweredbyplay.org/2009/09/todays-ny-times-article-on-lego-tie-ins/ Helping families and teachers protect and promote imaginative play in our way-too-busy, consumer-driven, media-filled world. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:16:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.empoweredbyplay.org/2009/09/todays-ny-times-article-on-lego-tie-ins/comment-page-1/#comment-83 Meg McCormick Mon, 07 Sep 2009 07:07:49 +0000 http://www.empoweredbyplay.com/?p=53#comment-83 It was an interesting article and I thought of you as I read it! When my brother and I were little we made houses and horse pastures and sky scrapers with our legos (we preferred he bigger bricks!) but these days kids are creating the latest movie and losing a lot of the creativity that used to come with Legos. <br />The 4 year old that I nannied for loved the Legos but the fact that he couldn't make the sets into the picture on the front of the box was always a source of frustration. His passion lay with pirates but he had no idea why he always named them Jack (aka Capt Jack Sparrow). Sigh. The effects that media has go so deep.... We started mixing the boxes of pre- formed utopian lego environments together and made an awesome spaceship. The astronauts we named "Twirly head" and "Space Cool Man". Much better. It was an interesting article and I thought of you as I read it! When my brother and I were little we made houses and horse pastures and sky scrapers with our legos (we preferred he bigger bricks!) but these days kids are creating the latest movie and losing a lot of the creativity that used to come with Legos.
The 4 year old that I nannied for loved the Legos but the fact that he couldn't make the sets into the picture on the front of the box was always a source of frustration. His passion lay with pirates but he had no idea why he always named them Jack (aka Capt Jack Sparrow). Sigh. The effects that media has go so deep…. We started mixing the boxes of pre- formed utopian lego environments together and made an awesome spaceship. The astronauts we named "Twirly head" and "Space Cool Man". Much better.

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