<p>I agree that establishing good attitude toward learning at a young age is important. If we have two kids, more likely than not, both of them will go to a state school. We likely could not afford that kind of ECs if we had two kids.</p>
<p>We bought a lot of blocks from BRIO. It is a better hit than the train set just because we bought much more BRIO blocks than the train set because the latter is more expensive. We also had a lot of Lego pieces. It was a hit too. When DS was a preschooler, we read a lot of education related book for young children. I think I learned about what may likely be “good toys” from that source. He spent a lot of his young years playing with toys - to a certain extent, he even did not do a lot on the so-called 3R before middle school.</p>