A parent's guide to raising a kid who loves to make things.
They need to make something. The divide that really matters isn't screens vs. no screens — it's a kid who watches versus a kid who makes. This book is about quietly tilting the balance toward making, one small moment at a time.
This isn't a book about forcing your kid into a hobby. It's about setting out a buffet — cooking, building, drawing, tinkering, code — and helping them discover what they genuinely love.
And it's completely okay if they don't like cooking. A "no" is just one more wrong door closed on the way to the right one. You can't assign a passion — but you can open the door.
Nine short chapters, each one small move a parent makes — from "my kid just watches" to "my kid makes things all the time."
Scout is your guide on every page — a curious little maker who's into absolutely everything. Because curiosity is the only tool this whole book really runs on.
Hans Stam is the dad half of this book — and the one who came up with the whole idea. He's not a maker by trade; his only qualification is the same one this book asks of you: he opened doors and said "sure, let's try."
Peter Stam is the kid half. He found his way into making through cooking — which started with a kit and never stopped — and 3D printing, which he's now, cheerfully, better at than his dad. He's living proof of nearly everything in these pages.
They wrote it together, a father and his son, which felt like exactly the right way to write a book about exactly this.
One small move at a time.
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