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To: Mollypitcher1

I made aircraft carriers out of shoe boxes and fashioned the jets out of tinfoil. When they bombed an enemy city, I would use torn-up black hefty bags as the smoke.

Give boys time, and they can create worlds out of anything.

Taking Legos from them is just cruel because it tells them that their natural desire to control and change their environment by building and creating is “wrong”. And it hurts the girls that dont even want to play with the blocks.


13 posted on 11/22/2015 10:52:32 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: VanDeKoik

I used to fry ants with a a magnifying glass.


15 posted on 11/22/2015 10:53:54 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: VanDeKoik

Some girls want to play with the blocks and like to use their imagination too. I made cannons out of my dad’s spent shotgun shells until he taught me to shoot and I had my own.(Molly Pitcher) I also used to build model airplanes and put together engines and other things that came in “kits”. My grandmother gave me a train set for Christmas when I was about 5-6. I’ve always liked anything but “Dolls” which I considered totally useless. I didn’t like “Fairy Tales” either. It didn’t make me less of a woman either. I have three wonderful children and six grandchildren.
Where this idiot “teacher” is off base is to attempt to restrict play things that indicate the natural inclinations of that young person, regardless of sex. Women engineers and scientists, (Marie Curie, Florence Nightingale,many women aviators, Frontier Women in this country ) are ample examples of exceptions to “Society’s Rules.” And then of course we should not forget Joan of Arc!


28 posted on 11/22/2015 11:11:04 AM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: VanDeKoik

Maybe this is more of a jealousy for Trump considering he built an empire in real estate, so she doesn’t want a room full of future Donald Trumps.


44 posted on 11/22/2015 12:52:23 PM PST by Blue Highway
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To: VanDeKoik

“Give boys time, and they can create worlds out of anything.”

A horrible tragedy occurred in my vicinity, when my son was four. A cop had been dispatched on a breaking and entering call, entered the apartment, and a pistol (toy) was pointed at him, from the shadows. An unattended child died, as a result.

In an abundance of caution, and empathetic heartbreak, for both the cop, and the kid, my son’s toy pistol “disappeared” one night, while he slept.

Within a few days, he was chewing his toast into the shape of a .45 , while menacing passersby, from our front porch. . .


52 posted on 11/22/2015 1:19:19 PM PST by jttpwalsh
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To: VanDeKoik

I’d love to had this aircraft carrier and plane setup from this vintage Carson clip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gq_2a8lOnA


61 posted on 11/22/2015 2:22:18 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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