Category: Parenting
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Every family seems to have at least one. Maybe it’s: 🧱 No LEGO at the dinner table. 🧱 LEGO stays in the playroom. 🧱 LEGO must be cleaned up before bedtime. 🧱 Special creations get to stay built for a week. Over the years, I’ve noticed that many LEGO frustrations aren’t really LEGO problems—they’re expectation…
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Imagine opening the bedroom door in the morning, stepping out into the hallway, and immediately stepping on a LEGO brick. You might not have to imagine it … it just happened this week! In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if you can spot LEGO pieces in nearly every room of the house. A few on…
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Have you ever driven somewhere and, when you arrived, realized you barely remembered the trip? Nothing unusual happened. It was just another routine drive. Our brains are funny that way. They tend to gloss over the routine and hold onto the exceptions. Routines become habits. Exceptions become memories. Childhood works much the same way. Your…
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How far can your LEGO bricks reach? Pick two sturdy spots in your home—a kitchen table and counter, the sofa and coffee table, or two chairs—and challenge your family to build a LEGO bridge all the way across. The catch? The bridge has to support itself without breaking! Once you make it across, move your…
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Some kids love building instructions. Others don’t. And that’s okay! A LEGO set comes as a curated experience. There is an enticingly designed box with an image of the completed model, and various scenes that can show up in play. Within the box, there are bags of LEGO parts. There are instructions. Often the parts…
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LEGO bricks have a way of… traveling. Under the couch? In your shoe? In the laundry? Somehow inside the car when you’re pretty sure nobody brought LEGO bricks into the car? They turn up in places that make you wonder whether LEGO bricks have secret lives when nobody is looking. 🧱😂 What’s the funniest, strangest,…
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Several years ago, I received a donation from a family that was getting rid of their LEGO collection. They said that their kids had “outgrown” it. As I sorted through the box, I noticed something unusual. Several of the sets had been glued together. Not something easy to wash off like Elmer’s glue — I’m…
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Those beautifully clean and spotless bedrooms. Those shelves of kids’ shoes and boots all lined up in neat rows. Those perfectly organized containers, all labeled and color-coordinated, full of LEGO bricks. It’s all a mirage. It’s too easy to compare our lived-in homes with the highly curated images we see on Pinterest—or even on our…
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It could be 2 a.m. You get up to comfort a child crying after a bad dream, stumble into the hallway, and suddenly remember that you forgot to help them pick up the LEGO pieces before bed. And you scramble to pick up a few before you end up with an … Ouch! You’re Brick…
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I know some parents who store every LEGO set their child owns in its own resealable bag or box. Others give their child one big bin and let all those LEGO pieces mingle together. Some sort by theme. Some by part type. Some by color. And some have a system that probably only makes sense…