There may have been some tongue in cheek exaggeration in the parent comment. Go out and be wild, at any rate. Fuel & electric motors and electronic kits make

There may have been some tongue in cheek exaggeration in the parent comment. Go out and be wild, at any rate. Fuel & electric motors and electronic kits make good hands-on toys at that age as well, to see things working. Bikes, guns, and other implements of destruction are cool too (one can stay within the bounds of wrecking things that were due for it anyway)