To think a 4 year old should know not to push over a giant Lego statue

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4 year old pushes over Lego statue.

That's just a badly behaved child right? Mine at 4 knew not to do things like this because I didn't let then run wild. I don't think the age is any excuse what so ever.

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The pieces were glued together. So yes, it would have happened.

What I want to know is why a Lego figure of a character from a movie that took three days to make is valued at $15,000. That is one hell of a day rate.

I'm sure that the artist is very happy. His work is now famous, and people are talking about it. Art is supposed to be controversial, and here we are.

We took my nearly 4 year old to a museum which had a Lego exhibition. I was constantly on edge trying to keep him away from the exhibits. So I think a 4 year old couldn't be trusted not to do it . In fact Dd3 has broken a fair few models at home just playing with them.
As others have said it didn't look stable and could have been an accident.
Sorry I did laugh but maybe that was partly because of the way the story was told.

A Disney character crumbled to pieces by a new generation, it really makes you think.

If the artist wanted to rebuild it, he could. It took him 3 days, not 3 years.

I am a bit baffled by this and the gorilla threads.

Do these children not come across walls, fences, hedges, and gates?

Or do these children run amok in other people's gardens if there's a cute dog or a trampoline or play equipment? Do they jump fences to get in fields with cows, leap over railings with dangerous electrical equipment in it?

We have visual boundaries in the world: the fact that you CAN get through them doesn't change the fact most people recognise that you DON'T.

YANBU, OP.

I hate children who ignore instructions.

Mine wouldn't know so we don't do mueseums. Far too stressful.

Why should everything be partitioned off to the nth degree just to ensure naughty kids don't break through? It ruins it for others.

Because museums dont want to be sued. If they dont put a barrier and a visitor damages something they could be sued for failing to protect it.

Also, adults damage things too.

My child wasn't an angle either

I hate children who ignore instructions.

PMSL
Like anyone likes that kind of behaviour! Unfortunately some children are more obedient than others!

wet so you hate children who don't follow instructions. I doubt there are many children who haven't acted impulsively at least once and therefore failed to follow an instruction.

I'm not sure it's lack of obedience either though. Ds has impeccable manners, in many ways is a self appointed playground monitor total stickler for 'the rules' and labels others as 'good' or 'naughty' (not our doing I hasten to add). But can I take him shopping without him incessantly fiddling with everything within reaching distance that interests him? No. Leisurely strolling around shops is a thing of the past. It's the same with meals out. Within 2 minutes of sitting down, all knives, forks, condiments etc have gravitated to the opposite end of the table, outside of his reach. He just has to touch and fiddle with things and that overrides everything else. After 5.5 years of failed strategy and a fair bit of stress we now resort to telling him/ giving him what he can touch and how he can touch it. For the most part this works and fortunately he is very aware of dangerous situations and listens to us. But on other occasions, if he sees something he desperately wants to touch and is forbidden to do so it results in a stand off and we have to remain strong about absolute boundaries. That's why there are some activities that we either no longer do, or accept the risk and attempt to reduce it somehow. Managing a tactile and experiential child can be exhausting, but equally rewarding - they are simply fascinated by the world and everything in it. In the right circumstances it's a joy.

There is a difference between knowing you shouldn't do something, and having the impulse control to not actually do it!

Excellent publicity for the artist. I hadn't heard of him or his work before this happened.

My children have been quite obtuse, but also occasionally acute

Yes and no, generally speaking children that age have some recognition of right and wrong but it is lego , a toy kids are all too familiar with so it's not difficult to see why they wanted to touch it.

I hate children who ignore instructions

Then that pretty much all children because only a tiny tiny minority never ever ignore an instruction.

littlelion love 'tactile and experimental' . I can add those to my dc's 'spirited' .

Lol actually my children do sometimes sleep at right angles

I hate children who ignore instructions

My child has autism and ignores instructions at times because of that. He might appear naughty to others but he has a developmental condition. Do you hate him?

Love how many parents on here are 100% sure that their children would never have even a moment of silliness yet you never meet these perfect children in real life

God, my four-year-old could totally have done that. Theoretically if you asked him he would know not to, but he is four and his impulse control is limited. Lego statue of character he likes, he'd totally want to examine it. I'd have held his hand though, because I know he'd try.

haligh I'm certain mine would do it.
Or try a least

Ps....Bright Eyes fan?

From what I have read online the artist wasn't heart broken about the model. He made a point to meet with the parents and the child, who was was in fact trying to hug the character. It over balanced and was broken as it fell. The child got quite upset and was apparently crying when talking to the artist who made it as he was trying to say sorry.

The parents tried to pay for it. The artist won't take any money and was more concerned that the child may have hurt himself if the model had hit the child when it fell.

It is so easy to have a child pull their hand from yours and getaway from you for a moment. Should all children be ban from places like this? Should they wear reins in public? It's Lego it's designed to be taken apart and put back together.