Milly
December 23, 2011, 11:17pm
17
Re: kids and technology
SGC, I don’t know about others but I find it hard reading a book on the ipad or the laptop. **Maybe I’m old fashioned but I want my child to feel the book feeling, and get transported like I did while reading Enid Blyton.
**And SGC you have played wii games, and played outside right … I think they are different. The fresh air, the sweat, yeah the mitti as well… the taking a shower after we came back home from playing games and then ammi having some snacks for us. I guess I might be a sentimental fool but I associate these things with a lived childhood.
Also when we played out in the galee , we were interacting with all sorts of kids. The ones that went to the same school as us, the ones who didn’t and frankly it also gave us a sense of neighborhood. I do understand with kids coming over only the ones who are my kids’ friends will come over.
Honestly I can’t wait for summers here in good ole Canada to take Jr. to the open parks and have him play and make friends on the playground, mall play areas just don’t cut it for me. Video games are great for hand, mind eye co-ordination but I would love for my child to have great pensmanship skills too.
Guac, this is just my observation but most kids who turn into zombies by technology are the ones where parents want to get the kids off their hands and pretty much no interaction with them or others around them. Mother needs to do housework, shower , chat for 3 hours on the phone so the kid is given techonology mommy… and there we see detrimental effects.
YES! I love love love the smell of new books, in fact, this is probably really lame but I dont even read library books as they are ‘used’ I buy new books.
I bought my sister a Kindle for her birthday and tried to ‘read’ it once on the train, it was awful. Not the same as a book. I love books!
Baby and toddler books are SO much fun too, the pop up ones, the touchy feely material ones, just the pictures are exciting enough for me!