You can engineer how your child thinks about engineering.

• See how many times you can use the word “engineer” or “engineering” around your child – even if he is too young to understand the word. You are laying groundwork – planting seeds.

• You could say, “I love how you are “engineering” those blocks to fit in that small space.” Or, “See if you can engineer a solution for that ball that keeps falling off your T-ball holder.”

• Your child might surprise you and ask what “engineering” is. Then you can explain in very simple terms. (For example, “That is when you are solving a problem or thinking hard about things or making up new things.”)