Ribh's D'Coopage

[Ribh]

Morning/afternoon, Bob.

 

[rjohns39]

We had so many story time literally went for hours & when we had sleepovers it went even longer because it was everyone's favourite part of the day. Each child was allowed to choose one story book. Each child also had a poem & a bible story that was for them & they were the child that got to sit in my lap while I read theirs. The oldest was onto Narnia so everyone went to sleep listening to me read to him [thin walls]. These days they all have excellent vocabs & I am blamed for them being incomprehensible to their peers. I don't understand anyone choosing a device over a good book.

Jeannie, I lost my love for reading because of work. When you read a couple thousand pages during the day, reading for fun just isn't fun any more. Sue kept it alive in the house and I would begrudgingly participate. But in the end, books stir imagination. They teach the child to think beyond their current reality. There is just so much there. My favorite series was "My side of the mountain" and today I live on the side of a mountain. I love technology and the internet, but I think both have given young people today a disservice. I look at the 20 somethings with all their emotional and mental issues. That didn't exist in our day because people actually talked to one another and held one another accountable for their actions and words.

 

[Grammy60]

Good evening everyone

 

[Ribh]

Jeannie, I lost my love for reading because of work. When you read a couple thousand pages during the day, reading for fun just isn't fun any more. Sue kept it alive in the house and I would begrudgingly participate. But in the end, books stir imagination. They teach the child to think beyond their current reality. There is just so much there. My favorite series was "My side of the mountain" and today I live on the side of a mountain. I love technology and the internet, but I think both have given young people today a disservice. I look at the 20 somethings with all their emotional and mental issues. That didn't exist in our day because people actually talked to one another and held one another accountable for their actions and words.

I loved My Side of the Mountain. My copy is falling to bits & it was one I read aloud to our children. When I was working as a children's librarian I had to skim read everything before cataloguing it but even so it never killed my love of a good book. I got out of library work because there was too much people contact time & they began insisting I train properly ~ & if I was going to spend 3 years studying again it wasn't going to be in a field I hated. I might have persisted if I could have been guaranteed work in Reference, which I liked & was very good @ & pretty much kept me away from the morons

 

[Ribh]

Good evening everyone

 

[Shadrach]

I had wanted to post a picture of the two kids reading Harry Potter sized books together, but it's not on my phone any more. This photo of the books they are writing I took yesterday though!

Love the indoor hammock.

 

[Shadrach]

We didn't have gadgets growing up. My family reunions was the best. All the children, cousins. nieces and nephews, brothers and sisters, would all sit in one room at grandmas house, and tell stories. "The best of times"

That is a point that gets overlooked in these conversations; the electronic stuff wasn't about when we (younger people excused) were kids.
I hardly spent any time in the house when I was a child. Free days and most evenings I would be at my Uncles farm.

 

[Ribh]

I may never be allowed the grandchildren on my own again.

 

[Shadrach]

I've been keeping an eye on Treacle and Cillin today. I saw Treacle attck Cillin for the first time throughout their lives. It was a fair intervention when Cillin tried to herd Tap away. What was even stranger is although Cillin retaliated briefly he walked away after. He's never done that before. Maybe, just maybe, they are going to come to some arrangement.

 

[Ribh]

I've been keeping an eye on Treacle and Cillin today. I saw Treacle attck Cillin for the first time throughout their lives. It was a fair intervention when Cillin tried to herd Tap away. What was even stranger is although Cillin retaliated briefly he walked away after. He's never done that before. Maybe, just maybe, they are going to come to some arrangement.

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I hope they can work things out. They are both beautiful boys.