I have no calves to speak of, so I have the opposite problem, that there isn't usually enough to fill out the calve part. Lame.
School starts the first week of September, which seems really soon. I could stand a few more weeks. It's starting to get dark noticeably earlier, and that makes me sad.
Yeah, they tend not to listen to recorded music much, at least not in the younger grades, so that they can sing and make music themselves. I have completely caved on the media and J has played hours of video games this summer. (As well as going to horse camp and spending two weeks kayaking on the ocean with his cousins every day.) I figure it doesn't matter as much now that he's older? Or that as long as he doesn't talk about it at school, we're okay? IDK. We are holding firm on Screenless Sundays, and that is a really good thing. In fact, one of A's friend's dads (the Michael Weston one!) came out to the cabin with everyone for dinner during A's birthday weekend extravaganza, and was asking me about how much A got to play, because his son would play every minute. So now they're gonna do Screenless Sundays, too.
When I saw the kid, I said I'd heard I'd ruined his life, and he said that no, it was good for him. I really like A's friends.
So I figure one day a week without screens is far more doable for us than trying to limit it during the week, because that's really hard. And what with activities and homework and all, there isn't really that much time to be on them, anyway. Plus, it keeps them off the streets. LOL.
I do enjoy the later summer nights, mainly because in summer that is often for me the only part of the day when it doesn't pain me to be outside. I'm so lame.
Well that's what I was wondering -- how you handle it in relationship to the actual expectations of the school. The thing I was reading made it sound as if it's kind of this doctrinal thing, and I was trying to wrap my brain around the idea of media-free kids. Probably I just lack imagination, but in the current world it would seem to me that not keeping up with how all the things work would just make you a freak. My kids have spent way too much time on the computer this summer, in addition to reading, playing games, doing puzzles, going to the beach, teaching/playing tennis and taking swimming lessons, and running -- N on his own and S with me. So I try for balance even though it doesn't always work at all. I freely confess to being glad when school starts just because it automatically cuts their screen time down to a very reasonable amount. For N it cuts it down to nothing while he's doing cross country in the fall.
School starts the first week of September, which seems really soon. I could stand a few more weeks. It's starting to get dark noticeably earlier, and that makes me sad.
Yeah, they tend not to listen to recorded music much, at least not in the younger grades, so that they can sing and make music themselves. I have completely caved on the media and J has played hours of video games this summer. (As well as going to horse camp and spending two weeks kayaking on the ocean with his cousins every day.) I figure it doesn't matter as much now that he's older? Or that as long as he doesn't talk about it at school, we're okay? IDK. We are holding firm on Screenless Sundays, and that is a really good thing. In fact, one of A's friend's dads (the Michael Weston one!) came out to the cabin with everyone for dinner during A's birthday weekend extravaganza, and was asking me about how much A got to play, because his son would play every minute. So now they're gonna do Screenless Sundays, too.
When I saw the kid, I said I'd heard I'd ruined his life, and he said that no, it was good for him. I really like A's friends.
So I figure one day a week without screens is far more doable for us than trying to limit it during the week, because that's really hard. And what with activities and homework and all, there isn't really that much time to be on them, anyway. Plus, it keeps them off the streets. LOL.
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Well that's what I was wondering -- how you handle it in relationship to the actual expectations of the school. The thing I was reading made it sound as if it's kind of this doctrinal thing, and I was trying to wrap my brain around the idea of media-free kids. Probably I just lack imagination, but in the current world it would seem to me that not keeping up with how all the things work would just make you a freak. My kids have spent way too much time on the computer this summer, in addition to reading, playing games, doing puzzles, going to the beach, teaching/playing tennis and taking swimming lessons, and running -- N on his own and S with me. So I try for balance even though it doesn't always work at all. I freely confess to being glad when school starts just because it automatically cuts their screen time down to a very reasonable amount. For N it cuts it down to nothing while he's doing cross country in the fall.
Always a work in progress though, you know?
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