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Are you suggesting we zip tie the kids?
How does that work with "shelter in place"? Sure, WE could do it... our "back yard" is a half mile square. But some folks are stuck in a suburban house on a tiny lot, or worse, in an apartment. They have my profoundest sympathies.You guys are really over doing it.
Just give your kid a large spoon, and tell them to get outside. (Don't let the screen door slam!!!)
They'll figure it out.
For teenagers wanting to be all adult and stuff give them a choice, a baseball in one hand, and a broom in the other. Choose.
And don't come back until dark. (Don't let the screen door slam!!!)
Kids have been playing in dirt since Adam. Just get them outside. Give them some rules, and the consequences on breaking those rules (be sure to follow up on those consequences), and they will figure it out.
Make them wash their hands when they come in.
My job here is done.
How does that work with "shelter in place"? Sure, WE could do it... our "back yard" is a half mile square. But some folks are stuck in a suburban house on a tiny lot, or worse, in an apartment. They have my profoundest sympathies.
Summerthyme
How many parents just don't have a clue as to keeping kids productively occupied?
Normally, that's what school is for.
On weekends, it's video games.
What is hilarious is our grandsons' favorite winter occupation when thry visit... boxes! Empty boxes. I always kept "good" cardboard boxes from Amazon and other mail orders, but now I've got stacks of assorted shipping boxes for my business as well. They fold them up, and use them as building blocks for all sorts of forts, castles and tunnels. I did have to ask them to not crush them (at one point there was a vigorous king on the mountain game going on!) but otherwise, I don't mind at all. I do sometimes have to go on a scavenger hunt for the size I need to pack an order, but that's a small price to pay for their laughter.
Summerthyme
Perhaps not unexpectedly, it went down pretty well, so Stewart – no stranger to an apocalyptic scenario, albeit usually a fictional one – has decided that he’ll post a sonnet a day until this nightmare is over – he followed up today by going back to the start and posting his reading of ‘Sonnet 1’.
Patrick Stewart
✔@SirPatStew
· Mar 22, 2020
1. I was delighted by the response to yesterday's posting of Shakespeare's Sonnet 116, and it has led me to undertake what follows...
Patrick Stewart
✔@SirPatStew
2. When I was a child in the 1940s, my mother would cut up slices of fruit for me (there wasn't much) and as she put it in front of me she would say, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." How about, “A sonnet a day keeps the doctor away”? So...here we go: Sonnet 1.
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I have two (grown) kids. They were raised in a forest in a remote mountain area a couple of miles straight down from a National Wilderness Area. My son stayed in that area. My daughter didn't and moved to the city. Her children live a much different and more structured life with sports and music lessons. They also go to the theater, to the concert, to the zoo and to the many regional museums. They are familiar with various classical composers as well as fine artists. They take a book with them when they go out to dinner and they journal.I don't think any of you actually had children.
I had three. None of em were bookish, they were . . . kids.
tadpoles and water moccasins from the creek, acorn fights from 20 foot up an oak tree, tree house fortresses with plank walkways between the trees.
They were imps straight out of Peter Pan.
Entertaining them aint the problem. Finding them . . that was the problem.
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my oldest son could read by the time he was five which we were very proud of until he read the word "PULL" on the little red box on the wall at the daycare center and then did, "PULL" the fire alarm.I have two (grown) kids. They were raised in a forest in a remote mountain area a couple of miles straight down from a National Wilderness Area. My son stayed in that area. My daughter didn't and moved to the city. Her children live a much different and more structured life with sports and music lessons. They also go to the theater, to the concert, to the zoo and to the many regional museums. They are familiar with various classical composers as well as fine artists. They take a book with them when they go out to dinner and they journal.
(Except for the littlest one, who I was able to ruin by babysitting often. He was sent to the principal's office the first day of kindergarten.)
Who is to say what is best. I left the city to raise my kids in the country so that they would be self reliant and have an appreciation of man's place in nature. My daughter has additional values she obtained from visits to her grandparents, which she feels are advantageous. Se' la vie.