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My four-year-old stepson only got into Lego in the last year, but he is very into it now, and this is great! He does not like to follow the instructions and prefers to build his own things. The problem is that he is not very careful about the pieces. After his last visit, I tried to put some of the sets back together and was unsuccessful; some of the pieces he lost were quite large, I swiffered under the couch and everything and can't find them. I have no idea where he put them. He has his own box of Lego, but he is curious fellow and likes to see how they are made. So his preference is to take one of our grown-up Lego sets, take it apart to see where all the pieces go, and then incorporate his own things. This is the part we are struggling with! We don't want to be Lord Business as it were,and say 'look, but don't touch.' And we don't want to squash his creativity. But some of our 'grown-up' Lego was very expensive. My husband is struggling to put back together his Ghostbusters car. A few key pieces are missing, and they aren't the kind of pieces we can replace from what we have on hand. Am I a horrible person if I tell the little guy that he can mix and match the pieces, free reign, with his own stuff at his Lego table, but if he wants to play with one of Daddy's sets, he has to do one at a time, at the kitchen table where we can help him? I feel awful for even asking this because we love him to bits and would do anything for him. But...he makes such a mess, you know? Can I balance this somehow without being the terrible ruiner of ruination who squashes all his dreams?
