http://shine.yahoo.com/tag/preschool http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/parenting/the-magic-of-hard-hats-and-bulldozers-construction-sites-and-why-our-kids-love-them-513682/ There's nothing like a construction site -- the mounds of dirt; the bright, yellow bulldozers; the cranes -- to capture a certain kind of toddler's attention. And if you live with this certain kind of toddler, the kind of toddler who, say, spends more time building miniature roads and modeling hard-hats than eating, you've probably wondered what it is about the nature of construction that gets your little one so fired-up. Though really, when you think about it, there is something pretty amazing about making something from nothing, about taking a heap of bricks and steel and lumber and turning it into a grocery store or a house. When we, in our jaded adulthood, look at a highway or a shopping center, maybe all we see is the way to work or the place where we buy our toilet paper and orange juice. But the construction-loving toddler, so curious about everything's origins, looks for the girders, for the graders, for the why and how and where of every structure he sees. nospam@example.com () http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/parenting/the-magic-of-hard-hats-and-bulldozers-construction-sites-and-why-our-kids-love-them-513682/#comments http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/parenting/the-magic-of-hard-hats-and-bulldozers-construction-sites-and-why-our-kids-love-them-513682/