Building Young Minds Brick by Brick

For working parents, there's an intensity to Thursdays that can border on the overwhelming. Status reports are due, kids have tests to prepare for, and meetings pile up from projects unfinished from the week, making my Outlook calendar look like one of Piet Mondrian's more colorful works. Careful observers of my calendar are apt to notice, in the weeks between September and December, blocks of time appearing with an peculiar subject: LEGO coaching.