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As well as construction toys we also have a huge range of musical toys and arts and crafts equipment, for other great ways to get creative with your kids.A father in Taipei, Taiwan, was walking home from work late at night when he looked up and saw his son's face on a massive screen, asking his father to spend time with him.Lego teamed up with 6-year-old Hsiao Feng for "A Gift for Imagination" to create an ad that would get his father's attention. The toy company said that working adults in Taipei "are some of the busiest in the world." Although the Labour Standards Act in Taiwan capped off working hours at 40 per week, many employees still work up to 12 hours a day.Feng's father was no exception. He often didn't have time to "pay attention to his son's imagination" because of his job.Feng wanted to share his vivid imagination with his dad, so Lego helped him film an ad that was showcased all over the internet, TV, billboards and the 100-metre screen at Taipei Arena.In the video, the six-year-old explains that his father repairs and sells cars, and he showed off an "unbreakable" car that he created with toy bricks."
I will give this car to my dad. He will never have to repair it, and wouldn't be so tired anymore," he said.When Feng's father saw the ad as he walked home from work, he became emotional and thanked his son for "wanting to leave the best" for him."I promise to spend more time with you, and fill your childhood with the best memories," said the father.School district finally agrees not to punish the child for Lego GI Joe toy after mother’s protests My wife screamed “sick in the head” when we saw this on the local news tonight. We’ve previously covered the gun-shaped breakfast pastry and a pencil pointed like a gun. A Palmer, Massachusetts, 6-year old faced detention and suspension, and was forced to write an apology letter for bringing a GI Joe Lego toy gun the size of a Quarter onto a school bus: A plastic LEGO-sized gun caused a disturbance on a Old Mill Pond Elementary School bus Friday morning. Mieke Crane is the mother of the 6-year-old kindergarten student who brought the gun on the bus.
“I think they over-reacted totally. I totally do,” said Crane. Another student on the bus saw the toy and yelled to the driver. “She said he caused quite a disturbance on the bus and that the children were traumatized,” said Crane. The school sent home a letter to parents of students who take the bus explaining what happened. It stressed no gun was on the bus and there was never any danger. The letter also has photo of the toy showing it’s actual size, which is slightly larger than a quarter. “I could see if it was you know, an air soft gun or some sort of pistol or live bullets or something. This is just a toy,” said Crane. She is upset with how her son is being disciplined. She says he had to write an apology letter to the driver, has detention on Tuesday and could be temporarily suspended from the bus…. School officials, however, eventually decided not to discipline the 6-year old after the mother’s protests: A kindergarten student that was supposed to get detention for bringing a Lego sized gun onto a school bus Friday morning is no longer being disciplined by the school for the incident.
Mieke Crane, the boy’s mother, says he was worrying about his detention all weekend, but is relieved it’s not happening. “He smiled when we told him, he was very excited when we told him he didn’t have to serve the detention,” said Crane…. “She [the principal] looked at the tape, the children were not standing up hollering, nobody was ducking, no one was screaming he has a gun. The little boy raised his hand properly the first time,” said Crane. Originally, when the school learned about the incident Friday they had the six-year-old write an apology letter to the driver. They also gave him detention that was scheduled to be served Tuesday along with a bus ticket. A letter explaining what happened was also sent home to the parents of the students on that specific bus. If we could save just one child from this mental abuse, shouldn’t we take that step? Update: Palmer boy was 3rd Massachusetts kindergartener in 4 months to run afoul of ‘zero tolerance’ school gun policies .
Precocious 7-year-old girl attacks Lego’s ‘sexist’ toys An adorable and intelligent letter by a precocious 7-year-old who thinks Lego should offer more adventures for girls is spreading like wildfire across social media channels. This young marketing whiz named Charlotte is fed up with Lego’s gender-stereotyping that forces pink building blocks upon girls and blue ones on boys, and so last month she decided to write the billion-dollar Danish toy company a letter. She wisely points out that the building kits for boys feature great adventurers who “swim with sharks” while the ones for girls include figures who “sit at home, go to bed and shop.” Charlotte’s mother was impressed by her daughter’s letter and posted it on Sociological Images, who spread the word on Twitter. Here’s what Charlotte wrote in her letter: My name is Charlotte and I am 7 years old and I love Legos but I don’t like that there are more Lego boy people and barely any Lego girls.
Today, I went to a store and saw Legos in two sections. The pink girls and the blue boys. All the girls did was sit at home, go to the beach and shop. They had jobs but the boys went on adventures, worked, saved people and had jobs, even swam with sharks. I want you to make more Lego girl people and let them go on adventures and have fun. Lego’s Friends line for girls has been scrutinized ever since it was first introduced in 2011. The kits feature female characters who are bigger and have more human features than the traditional boxy figures—in other words, the Lego gals are taller and curvier. They come with back stories like the American girl dolls and Disney princesses. They each have their own personality: one likes to cut hair, another loves animals. They have names such as Emma and Olivia and come with accessories such as purses and shoes. Their clothes are pink, lavender and baby blue, and hearts adorn their shirts. With their accompanying kits you can build a salon, a veterinarian clinic or a café.
When the line was first introduced, Jezebel’s Margaret Hartmann wrote: Girls will probably love “Mia’s Puppy House” and “Stephanie’s Outdoor Bakery,” but they don’t look all that “good for little girls’ brains.” The sets don’t appear to be all that difficult to put together, and it seems unlikely that they’ll be a gateway for girls to start constructing cities of their own design with a bag of random blocks. Lego didn’t always create separate kits for boys and girls. Back in the 1970s, the company sold gender-neutral sets with male and female figurines and primary-colored bricks for building houses. The company has launched a few small lines aimed at females over the years, all of them unsuccessful. But when Lego hit tough times, they basically gave up on girls and poured tremendous amounts of creative energy and time into making sets geared to boys’ love for violence and action, and this strategy has been hugely successful, according to Bloomberg Businesweek.