2006-12-18 05:30:08 · 9 answers · asked by Beavis 1 in Games & Recreation ➔ Toys
The correct answer to the question is Yes. A good analogy would be having your son to bake a cake in the kitchen instead of having him play in the back yard making mud pies.
2006-12-18 06:13:01 · update #1
No, Legos make you use your creativity, as you can build several things with them. All models do is improve your ability to follow instructions. Legos take a lot more abstract thought than models do.
2006-12-18 05:34:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Less intellegent or intellegent in different ways?!?! I have an 18yr old & a 14yr old. The oldest dude LOVES models, in life he takes the path of ease with the pretty outcomes. Works well pushing paper and answering phones for $$. He's the most popular senior, A#1 on track & wresteling and has the pretty girls & the nice car - but the grades, not so good! The younger (still playing w/ legos without instructions) has pretty good grades, extremely logical, very sensitive to others needs, plays the mediator, is actual friends will ALL girls and will most likely spend his life designing the buildings his brother's company sells. I also have a brother 10 years younger than I who played with both equally - He's a Site Supervisor for a large electrical contractor - making a nice buck and IS HAPPY with his life & work. It's a matter of personality and how they use the intelligence they have. It's up to us "the parents" to give them the creativity freedom to choose a path and then we can help them enhance that path. How many of us can actually say we LOVE what we do for a living? Isn't that the true key to a happy and fullfilling life.
COMENT ON LATER NOTE
***AAAHHH BUT couldn't you take that the other way and say the pre-fab models where you just snap apart and glue together as "the mud pies" and the free-form building with legos as a "cake from scratch"?
2006-12-18 14:08:07 · answer #2 · answered by can-i-c-some-id@sbcglobal.net 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it depends, unfortunately in today's society, intelligence is misconstrued as the ability to get things correct... however, in the minds of many, intelligence is the way you interact with things around you, including lego's or model cars...
children who use cars show an enthusiasm for viewing a finished project like that of someone who, as an adult, will take and see through, the orders of someone higher than them..
the lego child shows that they enjoy the challenge of starting with nothing and working up to something they can take pride in because they know they have done this all by their hand and through the inventiveness of their imagination.
personally, i don't like to call one more intelligent than the other, either has a chance of being successful, but there is no harm in allowing them to choose the hobby they find most pleasureable...
*i used legos by the way
2006-12-18 13:47:36 · answer #3 · answered by pooshna66 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would disagree. I played a lot with legos. And now i'm a successful software engineer with a wife and happy social life.
A few of my friends did those model cars and such, they are still back home in small town doing nothing with their lives.
So no, legos do not make you less intelligent.
2006-12-18 13:38:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was looking for a construction toy kit for indoor playing for my kids and my occupational therapist recommended the clics construction toy truck set. The creative colors on these educational toys are for parents of Age 3-5 and teachers of Age 5-7. Needless to say my son plays with these clics every waking hour of the day. It is easy to construct huge things in minutes and doesn’t hurt when mom steps on the toy barefoot. Hah hah.
2006-12-19 14:41:51 · answer #5 · answered by mama46 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My 17-year-old son plays with Legos and he's off the charts smart--wants to be a quantum physicist. Lego has very sophisticated stuff--like MindStorms--where you design a robot and then program it.
2006-12-18 13:42:39 · answer #6 · answered by angel_light 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not really well to my opinion it's not because all little boys well not exactly not all but most boys I've known when they played with Lego's they has great jobs so not really they don't!
2006-12-18 14:15:23 · answer #7 · answered by Andrea O 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Steven C. stole the words right out of my mind. It's creative, open-ended conceptualization vs. uncreative, follow-the-rules pattern following.
2006-12-18 13:39:38 · answer #8 · answered by Underground Man 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
kinda
2006-12-18 13:37:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋