Following Instructions, Toddler with Legos Edition.

[Joe Handley]

I wasn’t able to make Easter breakfast with my Sister, 3.5 y/o Niece, BiL and his family due to an illness I’m still dealing with but Dad went and took the Lego sets we had bought my Niece. Dad started noticing that she isn’t building them as the instructions state to do, she basically chucks them and starts building how she wants!
 I’m happy to see that she is going to be creative with them, though I may be looking at the generic sets for her, going forward.

[Snake45]

1 hour ago, Joe Handley said:

I wasn’t able to make Easter breakfast with my Sister, 3.5 y/o Niece, BiL and his family due to an illness I’m still dealing with but Dad went and took the Lego sets we had bought my Niece. Dad started noticing that she isn’t building them as the instructions state to do, she basically chucks them and starts building how she wants!
 I’m happy to see that she is going to be creative with them, though I may be looking at the generic sets for her, going forward.

Have you seen my sig line? ?

[Ace-Garageguy]

Not to be too serious about a kid's approach to enjoying her Legos...but it's been my experience that creativity is best nurtured into something useful if one learns to "color inside the lines" at some point, with the understanding of artistic or technical conventions and the development of eye-hand coordination that entails, prior to embarking on more "creative" endeavors. Modelers who haven't mastered basic skills before attempting heavy mods illustrate the idea nicely.

Without learning the basics, one tends to remain at this level of competence indefinitely:

 

[stitchdup]

1 hour ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

Not to be too serious about a kid's approach to enjoying her Legos...but it's been my experience that creativity is best nurtured into something useful if one learns to "color inside the lines" at some point, with the understanding of artistic or technical conventions and the development of eye-hand coordination that entails, prior to embarking on more "creative" endeavors. Modelers who haven't mastered basic skills before attempting heavy mods illustrate the idea nicely.

Without learning the basics, one tends to remain at this level of competence indefinitely:

 

where did you get a pic of my government certified welding? seriously i did a course a few years ago that got me all the certificates but didn't include any welding, lol

[Ace-Garageguy]

7 minutes ago, stitchdup said:

where did you get a pic of my government certified welding? seriously i did a course a few years ago that got me all the certificates but didn't include any welding, lol

I've had job applicants with the little piece of paper proclaiming they were "certified" welders, who couldn't do much better than that.

And I've also worked with FAA licensed aircraft mechanics who couldn't time a magneto, and put brake pads in backwards.

Scary what "certified" sometimes actually means in reality.  

[stitchdup]

1 minute ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

I've had job applicants with the little piece of paper proclaiming they were "certified" welders, who couldn't do much better than that.

And I've also worked with FAA licensed aircraft mechanics who couldn't time a magneto, and put brake pads in backwards.

Scary what "certified" sometimes actually means in reality.  

I only put it on my cv for jobs that will never include welding, if theres welding its in the other information part since i did the course but it was useless, so it maybe proves i have commitment and if nothing else they ask about it so its an expected question