When I was a young girl, I pretty much only played with Barbie dolls. I remember carrying my first one around almost every day and was really sad when I accidentally left it in one of those McDonald's shoe cubbies for kids.
I never really even thought to play with Legos. Weren't those for boys? Well, engineer and inventor Debbie Sterling Lewis is here to prove that little girls CAN in fact grow up to enter the so-called "boys club" if they are given the right motivation. That's where her inspirational new book & toy series, Goldie Blox comes into the picture.
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Debbie was frustrated by the lack of women in her field of engineering, and she could see the root of the problem began from a very young age. Little girls played with dolls, boys built things. These days companies try to appeal to girls by simply taking those boys' blocks and making them pink but, as Debbie put it, "it all came down to one thing: boys like building and girls like reading."
These toys develop special skills and get kids interested in engineering and science. I didn't even know what engineering was until I was a senior in high school so, to me, really is the toy I wish I had growing up.
So she combined what girls naturally gravitate towards–reading and instructions–with an adorable interractive building toy. I wish I had this toy growing up! It's definitely a great idea and one that I hope to share with my daughters someday. Obviously I'm not the only one that thinks it's a great idea, Debbie's Kickstarter campaign was funded with almost double the goal she had in mind. In fact, she'll be making two more books in the series wth the money she was able to raise!
I'm so in love with this I seriously wish I could play with the "book and a construction toy combined." Barbie: You've been warned!
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