[mibbitier]

Lego is the best toy anyone can buy their kids. Seriously, forget about teaching them programming until later. Buy them lots of lego as soon as you can. It'll teach them maths, art, problem solving, engineering, following instructions, creativity etc etc.

The /lego and /afol subreddits are quite good.

[EliRivers]

Avoid the Lego aimed at girl-children, though. It's rubbish compared to the good stuff.

[mibbitier]

Untrue. My daughter loves the 'Lego friends' range. She still loves all the other ranges, but they have done the range extremely well for people who love flowers, animals, etc etc.

[EliRivers]

That's nice that she likes it. What makes it rubbish is that it's generally far less intricate, with far fewer separate pieces and far fewer assembly steps. These things are what makes lego so neat. What you have here is rubbish lego, with a picture of a flower on. Great.