And if you take out the growth of Lego, it would actually be down 16%.
I wonder if the current generation of youngsters prefer their I-Pads over Easy Bake Ovens and Slinky's.
Saw another article this week saying babies aren't developing the proper motor skills with building blocks because at that early age they are already using tablets.
It will be interesting to see the generation grow up. Will they all have Google Glass contact lenses?
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
I remember Waaaaaay back when in the late 1960s as young shaver, getting up to milk cows before the sun. Coming in to the house for breakfast after cleaning up the milking equipment in the milking parlor. It took some teaching from the older sons and my father for me to get it right but eventually I could do more so they could attend to other chores.
I think we have crossed a threshold as a society; children of today don't need to know how anything works or to commit much to memory because the only thing they need to know is how to find the information they seek on the Internet. I suppose that there will always be exceptions but it seems to me that telling a kid of today's generation about original methods to farm, explore, and discover are met with "...that might be so but I can look it up right here, get multiple verified results, and never leave the house..."
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
