&gt; please tell me why playing with Legos is any more valuable than playing minecraft?<p>First, it&#x27;s important for children to use their hands to develop their cognitive abilities. There is more in the world than just &quot;pictures behind glass&quot; to interact with and manipulating objects of various shapes, texture and weight is important.<p>Secondly, playing Minecraft is great, but maybe that&#x27;s not what the kids were rushing to do. If they were playing Candy Crush or reading Facebook they would benefit more from playing lego.