Mom Tales: Teaching A Toddler About Buildings

Instead of putting my toddler in an expensive playschool with a sand-pit, swings and car toys, I choose to walk with him in our neighborhood to look at the two construction sites. My son has learned more about building by watching masons layering bricks, sieving sand, mixing cement and digging with a JCB than he would through #Lego blocks. The mostly-women construction workers wait for his visits in the morning and in the afternoon. He now has a vocabulary for building. Ask him to build something out of blocks and he'll say you build with bricks 😆😆

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