TheBanyanTree: Lego logistics?

[Gloria]

Legos...plastic bin here too. Was our son’s LEGO bucket and now the grands
use it. When they want to use them, they lay down a bath towel (of all
things)and dump the bucket of Legos on it. When they’re  done, I pick up
the towel and in one easy dumping, they’re all back in the bucket.

One grandson has a special racecar that gets put back in its box when he’s
done messing with that one. He’s 5 and the system works well for him.

1 bucket, 1 towel, 1 box

On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 12:42 AM peter macinnis <
petermacinnis at ozemail.com.au> wrote:

> On 13/01/2018 18:03, anita at redpepper.net.au wrote:
> > On a completely different topic - have any of the parents out there
> > developed the perfect Lego organising system??
>
> Chris and I, as parents, started trying to keep the kits separated, but
> before long (say, 10 minutes?), bits were being subverted to new roles.
> We gave in and used a big tub with a lid, and that's what we'll use for
> the two younger grand daughters (now 13 months). Mind you, before they
> are seven, they will have a good Meccano set, as my daughter did. Our
> two sons were allowed to share the set, but it was Cate's, and now it
> belongs to her daughter.
>
> (I may have old this tale, but it bears repeating: when Cate was in
> pre-school, she came home to say they had to say what they would be when
> they grew up. I told her she would either be a plumber or a research
> physicist. A little boy who didn't know what a research physicist said
> "girls can't be plumbers", so I sent Cate back to say that yes they
> could, and her dad knew three girl plumbers. The truth is: her dad had
> been handling the files of our first three girl plumbers, guarding their
> backs. I didn't really know them. Anyhow, that stayed with Cate, and she
> referred to it in her Ph.D. thesis, pointing out that she had, in fact,
> combined many of the characteristics of plumbers and physicists as she
> constructed her equipment. Clearly somebody was being political when she
> got that Meccano set. Hehehe: last time I was in New Zealand, this time
> last year, my wife, my daughter and my grand daughter took me along as
> their designated sherpa on the world's first Women's March. I win!)
>
> Since we banyan folk haven't been talking much, Chris and I got two more
> grand daughters as a Christmas present in 2016. They were anticipated
> and hoped-for, when son Duncan and wife Megan bought a home near us (we
> have our Advanced Grandparenting Certificates).
>
> We are busily subverting them, and as soon as the girls are old enough
> to know that some kinds of nuts are not for eating, we will get them
> started, because I think Brianna will still be using hers.
>
> As for Lego, I am planning to let the girls loose on Lego Teknik, but
> I'd better practice on the older pair.  In a week, I will be in New
> Zealand with them (it's a regular part of each summer that we are
> live-in child care until school starts), and as I have reached a
> (planned) writing gap, I plan to follow the advice of a friend and start
> learning to do stuff with the BBC micro:bit, along with the kids. With
> my usual cunning, I will manoeuvre them into teaching me how to use it :-)
>
> With luck, they will plead with me to leave it there. That's my aim,
> anyhow.
>
> With stuff like that, lists of rules are only useful if they have big
> margins you can write notes in.  Rules get in the way of fun.  So do
> boxes.  My next book to come out already has a dedication: "To
> Schrödinger's other cat, who always thought outside the box."
>
> But to save your feet at night, you MUST have one box to hold them all,
> and in the darkness bind them.
>
> peter
>
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