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Sticks, mud pies, trees, roof tops, yards, roads, sidewalks. All fun too, thanks nature and society.
by mycall 7y ago
Sticks, mud pies, trees, roof tops, yards, roads, sidewalks. All fun too, thanks nature and society.
- EvanAnderson 7y agoAbsolutely. I am blown away by how my 6 y/o daughter, raised so far w/ no "screens" and minimal exposure to video, can figure out how to make almost any natural material into a toy. It has been a challenge to keep rocks and plant matter from filling up our house.
- otakucode 7y agoYou are making the presumption that a modern parent would permit their child to go outside and play without going with them. The primary reason most kids don't want to play outside is because their parent goes with them and kills every single opportunity for fun.
- hanniabu 7y ago> parent goes with them and kills every single opportunity for fun Sad but true. I'm super self-conscious of dancing because when I was little my mom would always chaperone these events and watch me. Now I always feel like there's somebody standing around with nothing better to do but analyze my every move, judging who I'm talking to, saying, etc. When my friends come over I hate even talking to them in the house because I know she's listening. Same thing with phone calls in the house. I always need to go for a walk for that.
- PenguinCoder 7y agoOpposite problem with my kiddo. He is nine and doesn't want to go outside unless a parent goes with him.
- IggleSniggle 7y agoI would love to do this, but cannot in my location. Both because it would be too easy to step into fast moving traffic (age specific issue), and because people have been known to have CPS called on them for letting their child play unattended.
- gautamdivgi 7y agoWe've raised both our kids with "no-screens" (now 5 and 9 yrs old). They don't have their own devices and may not use ours. An exception is for the 9 yr old to use the laptop when learning to code at scratch.mit.edu. If they need to watch something - its a movie on the big screen in the evening only on if the next day is a school holiday. Yes - they turn almost anything into a toy. They have access to all sorts of stuff to build things - lego, clay (and clay sculpting tools), scissors and paper, plenty of board games, and outdoors even when cold and/or rainy.
- cvhashim 7y ago> 9 yr old to use the laptop when learning to code at scratch.mit.edu Wouldn't it just feel like a chore or homework at that point and not something you enjoy ?
- gautamdivgi 7y agoNot really. We don't push her to do it. It's not something that is scheduled or something. If she thinks of something with animals she likes to create an animation out of it on scratch.
- iikoolpp 7y agoHolding my child back developmentally to own the libs
- fastball 7y agoI know right? I doubt Socrates would've developed into such an intellectual powerhouse without his iPad as a young lad.
- nostrebored 7y agoThis is where I'm hoping to end up. People don't realize that a lot of people with large tech exposure severely restrict access to things like phones/laptops. Gates and Jobs come to mind iirc. There's tons of research showing that exposure to toys decreases creativity and the ability to play on your own with improvised toys. Learning how to use an operating system is trivial with the help of google. All of the arguments for letting your kids have unfettered access to electronics rest on the faulty assumption that familiarity is the important part of learning how to solve technical problems or to gain interest in technical subjects when there's just no consistent evidence to show this.