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"What happened with Legos, they used to be simple. Oh come on, I know you know what I'm talking about, Legos were simple. Something happened out here while I was inside. Harry Potter Legos, Star Wars Legos, complicated kits, tiny little blocks. I mean I'm not saying its bad I just wanna know what happened." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVCOAFKjaoY
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What comes first, the desire for gendered products or the gendered products?
> What comes first, the desire for gendered products or the gendered products? Apparently the desire. Toddlers pick gendered products on their own (for some forms of them). There was some studies about this behavior.
But it is true that kids even make gendered toys out of practically nothing. For instance, a local kindergarten here: three-year-old boys were forbidden to have toy guns. So the kids took some flat crispbread at the midday meal and chewed edges off to make it gun-shaped, and then started playing cops and robbers. Bang bang.
Lego is now only a 3D jigsaw puzzle, sadly. Lego Classic has just arrived in the UK but it seems a half-hearted piece of mummery to me.
I agree that other kits are just a bunch on non-general blocks and tiny pieces.
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> What comes first, the desire for gendered products or the gendered products? Apparently the desire. Toddlers pick gendered products on their own (for some forms of them). There was some studies about this behavior.
Well, if the toddlers can pick, the gendered products were there first. But it is true that kids even make gendered toys out of practically nothing. For instance, a local kindergarten here: three-year-old boys were forbidden to have toy guns. So the kids took some flat crispbread at the midday meal and chewed edges off to make it gun-shaped, and then started playing cops and robbers. Bang bang.
A gendered toy would be a toy gun packaged in a blue box with only images of boys on the packaging.
This is a brilliant kind of emotional branding! Chapeau!
recent studies have proven that praising a child’s
effort over the childs acheivements is the correct way
to raise a little person that will do well
I'm confident that positive and negative feedback about achievement are incredibly important moreso than acknowledging effort. Praising the attributes of a person is clearly just flattery so I don't know why anyone would do it or need a study to point it out.
Were you to praise effort and not assess achievement, you will train people to look like they are working hard rather than actually achieving anything and not give them the feedback that will help them truly excel.
Both the product and the ad are highly representative of '70s Nordic social ethics and aesthetics. A single product line called "Universal Building Sets" is an almost Platonic ideal of democratic creativity. Today's Lego has 33 product lines: http://www.lego.com/en-us/products When your Legos are branded as "Chima", "Bionicle", "Ninjago", "Marvel(tm) Super Heroes" or "Disney(r) Star Wars(tm)", it's expected that you…
They had no choice, the "univeral building blocks" patent ended not long ago, facing competition now, they had to find sustainable cash flow.
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Looking at the two boxes on the poster, they don't look that "universal" - it's a truck and the other one a house. Today's boxes I guess are just better categorized, but not that different.
These boxes only have standard pieces, which is why the truck and house look boxy. Today's boxes include too many specific pieces. Car hood, top, helicopter nose, etc. Pieces that can't be used for anything else that what they're designed for, and can't be replaced if lost. So you can't take it appart to build something different.
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They had no choice, the "univeral building blocks" patent ended not long ago, facing competition now, they had to find sustainable cash flow.
The competition is terrible though. Have you tried assembling any other "compatible" building set? The bricks aren't finished properly, some just pop off, and it all falls to bits easily. I'd say the nearest competition to Lego is probably 60% the quality of Lego.
recent studies have proven that praising a child’s effort over the childs acheivements is the correct way to raise a little person that will do well I think this claim is mistaken. The article backs the claim up with a link which discusses something different: whether to praise effort or praise attributes of the person e.g. "you are so smart!". Praising achievement is a third category of praise where consequences are…