Buying my son a toy robot for his birthday but i am low on budget.

Play provides children with a lively, dynamic personal language that is crucial for expressing their subjective feelings and experiences. Through play, children develop a language of their own, one that allows them to process and organize the world around them. It is through symbolic play that children are able to give meaning to their environment and interact with it in ways that promote cognitive and emotional growth.

Jean Piaget

I often buy toys for my son, Robinson. Aren't the kinds of gifts that he'll unwrap during Christmas or on his birthday. Every time I take him to the supermarket to buy groceries, I let him pick out a small toy,nothing expensive. When I was a kid, my family didn't have that much of money to do so, and i ended up being way lonely to become what i am now. So now that I can afford to buy him some little knick-knacks, so why not do it? It's like giving him a little sprinkle of joy every time we go shopping. encourage him to go out once a while preventing him from lack of physical activities. You know, just like how you sprinkle salt on popcorn to make it taste better!

His school offers an elective course on DIY robot making. Even though it's called "DIY," all they're really doing is assembling some pre-developed components that other people made, and they call that "DIY". But hey, at least the kids are having fun, right? It's like calling a hot dog a "gourmet meal" just because you put some fancy ketchup on it.

For kids, their love for robots can easily be turned into an enjoyment of light programming. It's like turning a simple puzzle into an exciting adventure! And who knows, maybe one day Robinson will build a robot that can tell even better dad jokes than me! 

Actually, there are some games that have done similar things. For example, Human Resource Machine, developed by Tomorrow Corporation, the same developer of the well-known game Little Inferno, are both outstanding works that turn programming thinking into a gamified way of teaching. It's like turning a boring old textbook into a thrilling adventure book! But as someone who wants to control my kid's screen time, I guess it's not a great decision to let my child spend too much time playing those dark humor mini-games. It's like letting a kid eat too much candy – it might be fun at first, but too much of it isn't good for them.

So, I spent some time researching whether there were any physical toys that could train my little user's programming thinking. And guess what? That's when I found this toy. It's like finding a hidden treasure chest in a big, messy attic!