Last weekend the family went shopping for clothes. Actually it was shopping for the kids’ clothes, in preparation for our son’s Kumon Advanced Student Recognition ceremony this Sunday. Teys and I divided the work, I bought stuff for our son while she worked with our daughter. Having completed our task early, my son and I head for the toy section.  We found cool toys: new RC’s,Tranformers, etc.  In my mind, however, I couldn’t help question the value of these toys a few years from now. My thoughts were in going through wholesale electronics to find a toy kit we could assemble as a family.

For his birthday, we bought our son a robot arm kit.  I assembled it together with him and his sister.  The sense of fulfillment was clearly evident in his behaviour as he started to play with it.  I guess nothing can replace the joy of enjoying the rewards of your labor.