Category: Parenting
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One thing my wife and I learned as parents of four kids is that every child is different—and every combination of kids is different, too. There was a period when our four seemed to divide naturally into two sets of best friends. At other times, who got along best seemed to depend on the day…
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Have you ever watched a building being demolished? Maybe you’ve seen a bulldozer or excavator clearing an old structure. Maybe you’ve watched a wrecking ball smash through a wall. Or perhaps you’ve seen one of those videos where carefully placed explosives bring an entire building crashing down in seconds. There are times when demolition makes…
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Have you ever baked a pie from scratch? You pull out the flour, shortening, a pinch of salt, and a little water to make the crust. Then there’s the filling—maybe apples, sugar, cinnamon, and spices. Maybe it’s pumpkin. Maybe it’s chocolate pudding and whipped topping for a mousse pie. Now imagine someone walks into the…
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🧱 Fill in the blank! The LEGO piece we lose the most in our household is __________. Is it a 1×1 round plate? A cheese slope? A minifigure accessory? Or is it always the one piece you need right now? 😅 Compare notes in our community on Skool.
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You’ve seen the pictures. The perfect LEGO room. There’s a tidy building table in front of a wall of perfectly labeled drawers, with every brick sorted by part type and color. Finished creations are displayed neatly on shelves. There’s plenty of room to build, plenty of room to store everything, and somehow there isn’t a…
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Parents are split on this one! Depending on how things went down right after the birthday party, there’s a chance that LEGO box didn’t even stand a chance. The birthday child has been waiting FOREVER to build this set. The wrapping paper goes flying. The box gets ripped open. Bags and instructions come pouring out.…
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You help her open the box. Her eyes light up as she dumps the bags onto a tray, and together you spread the instruction booklet across the table. You show her how the instructions tell her to open only one numbered bag at a time. “Why?” she asks. “Because it’s much easier to find the…
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What’s the Goal of Family Rules? Obedience? Or teaching your kids how to make good decisions for themselves? As parents, it’s easy to think of ourselves as the rule-makers. After all, we’re the adults in the room. But have you ever stopped to ask what those rules are really supposed to accomplish? Are they simply…
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You walk into the kitchen fifteen minutes before dinner… …and the entire table is covered with LEGO. Instruction booklets. Tiny colorful bricks. Half-finished spaceships. A minifigure smiling proudly from the middle of the chaos. Sound familiar? It might be tempting to decide that the dinner table and LEGO simply don’t mix. But maybe the dinner…
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If you’ve ever taken your family to a LEGO fan convention, you’ve probably found yourself staring at enormous castles, towering spaceships, and entire cities built from hundreds of thousands of bricks. There are often giant Great Ball Contraptions—motorized chains of LEGO machines that pass little orange or white balls from one invention to the next…