My kids love building blocks. Here’s why experts say playing with them is crucial | Sophie Brickman

We know how important play and imagination are to children. But what is it about building, specifically, that feels so necessary?

David Beckham apparently unwinds at the end of a long day by playing with Lego, which he'll do until the wee hours - two, three, four in the morning. It relaxes me," he said during an interview.

It's something I thought about a lot earlier this year, as my family existed in the perpetual, foggy fugue state otherwise known as everyone got Covid the day before we were supposed to go on our first family vacation in more than two years, and so now we're stuck in our apartment and can't leave, and we thought this was over, already".

Sophie Brickman is a contributor to the New Yorker, the New York Times and other publications, and the author of Baby, Unplugged: One Mother's Search for Balance, Reason, and Sanity in the Digital Age