all my kids have tablets but the only thing they can access is the common core education help. I don't understand the ways they teach now so they need help with homework. Otherwise it's get up and move your butt. If your board then feed something or clean something or build something.I agree. They have slowly but surely lost the ability to use their imaginations and create play. My son just bought his 2 yr old a tablet so she can color on it and watch Bible stories...what in the world does a 2 yr old need a computer for??????Great for long trips in the car maybe? But then, we kids always talked or slept or read a book for that.
I took the 2 yr old over to my uncle's house recently to be with us while we split a big pile of wood over there. I took her little baby doll stroller, her baby doll and some coloring things as we planned on being over there most of the day. She played with that stuff all of two seconds, then proceeded to turn grass and sticks into toys like kids always do and have done since the beginning of time.
When her mother found out she was over there all that time and how much fun she had with nothing, she just couldn't wrap her mind around that. She truly was amazed, as at home this kid has a whole toy room filled with many, many choices for playing and usually wants her Mom to play with her all the time when she does play with that stuff. Mom couldn't believe how much work we got done with the little girl entertaining herself with dirt and things.
That kid had a ball over there and keeps asking when we'll go to Uncle Jim's house again. Out here the most fun she has is stomping in puddles and using a little sand shovel she has to dig in the garden, the gravels in the driveway, or in the soft soil in the flock's dusting spots. She'll do that for hours, making up little stories, building "sand castles", etc.
A tablet? That's something you take when you don't feel so good. Other than that, it's nigh useless for a 2 yr old girl and it merely steals her creativity.
a child that is always clean is lazy. My kids are filthy by the end of the day. I feel bad for "city kids" who think going outside is dangerous because of traffic and hypodermic needle. Only one of my kids is forced to wear shoes, and that's only because he has type 1 diabetes. Kids should know how to read, write and do math without a doubt, they should also know how to build a Fort out of nature and be able to play baseball with a branch and a pile of apples from the ground.
I too grew up outside. I try to make myself come in nowadays and check on this site because I work 60-84 hrs a week then come home and really put in hrs. I got a new bull yesterday and for fun in between fixing fence and fixing fence to make sure he stays I simply watched him, sometimes see how much he'll let me scratch him. My friends don't like when I go visit and don't stay when they just want to go watch t.v on a nice day.
I have a little one in the oven
I would love my kids to have an "analog Granny" . I've said it before but here is again, you are awesome and I wish you were closer to me. May 2017 bring you and the little one great things..Slipped that right in there, didn't ya?Didn't think we'd catch it...but I did!!!
Congratulations on your little blessing....or two? Tee hee! It's really gonna get fun on your farm now!
I have the same problem when I visit my own family....they are watching TV, WHILE on their "dumb" phones, texting people and playing Candy Crush. Who DOES that when they have invited people over??? If I visit someone it's because I want to see their actual face and talk to them. I stopped visiting. They can come out here if they want to see me...when they do, sure 'nuff, out those dumb phones come and they want us to see this or that on them.The art of conversation is truly dead.
The funny thing is, these things can be done simultaneously. As my 2 yr old grandgirl takes eggs out of the nest, we count them. When she helps me make bread, we count and measure the ingredients. She's learning biology, science, math, sociology, art, English, reading, psychology, physics and geology right now as we garden, build, walk in the forest, take care of animals, dig in the dirt, tend to compost, read directions, follow diagrams and pictures, problem solve, etc.
She came up with a viable solution to a problem I was having while working on my coop and we utilized it..it worked. She struggled with remembering the names of the colors, so all on her own, she came up with a plan...started calling the colors by family members~Mommy Green, Daddy Red, Granny Orange, etc. The kid came up with word association tools on her own!
