I think im rather neglecting the blog at the minute , but its the heat and endless chores eating up my life plus lets not forget the granny duties . You know the six weeks of trying to stop munchkin and Grandad from killing each other . Ive been fortunate in a weird way , daughter is off sick after her boob job , so shes been able to keep him entertained . But thats part of the problem he expects to be entertained every waking hour . What has happened to kids in this generation they seem to be totally unable to amuse themselves , hes banned from all electronica because nothing he watches is in the slightest bit educational and he can run rings round me when it comes to blocking the endless trash he would otherwise view . When did kids TV become such dross , apart from horrible histories which im addicted to , at least he doesnt want to watch endless Heartbeat like last year so theres some plus points ..lol ..
At nine years old our summers were the great outdoors and that was it for 6 weeks , thats the principle my gran worked on with me and my boy cousins there were 6 of us most days , we were fed huge slices of jam and toast in the morning and we were out of the door for the day by 8am . We had a tumble down ramshackle farm to amuse ourselves with , chasing rats out of the stacks , with an old petrol scooter to trog round the lanes on , plus build ramps from anything we could find , dens , fires to roast our hedgerow dinner on , half cooked spuds and fruit from the hedgerows , tomatoes filched from someones greenhouse . On health and safety grounds alone we should all have been dead..lol
We have a glorious summer and you barely see a child out playing, Vitamin D makes them grow , in theory 4 inches during the school holidays for boys , I know houses dont have gardens anymore but in a bid to get them out there maybe we should have turn off the router week ?
I couldn't agree more.. We spent every waking moment outdoors... We too should be dead :-). We made skateboards from an old roller skate and a bit of wood... no cycle helmets.. paddled in the canal and laughed if someone found a leech stuck to their leg when they climbed out. We ate fruit from the hedgerow… without washing it first... oh shock horror... Pretty much every adult smoked.. We lived in a permanent fog... and we must have stunk to high heaven of fags... bleurgh....
ReplyDeletemust admit my mother is 84 and fit as a flea and she used to smoke 100 fags a day till she was in her 60s , great granny died with a woodbine in her hand aged 98 ...never felt the need to even try a cigarette the amount of smoke in our house was great aversion therapy
DeleteThat's exactly why I never smoked, not only was my mum a heavy smoker she was also unable to talk without waving her arms about so I frequently got burned too.
ReplyDeleteAre there any other children in the neighbourhood that he could play with? I think that's a part of the problem today - children may have no siblings or only 1 whereas we had many more - as did most families - so there was always a ton of other kids to play with. And a greater number meant greater safety as well - we could be off by ourselves because we never really were alone.
ReplyDeleteI think you are doing a great thing trying to keep him away from electronics but - can he help in the garden? Would grandad play cards or dominos or boardgames with him? Could you get him started on a puzzle? Just trying to think of something for him to do to give you a bit of a break.
he has a pretty impressive garden plot and loves anything garden but its at the point where all it needs is watering twice a day , theres also the fact that all we have in our tiny village is little girls . the only couple of boys are stay inside on the xbox children
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