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[threadwalker]

A day of projects and errands

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[fanlain]

seems like it's very kid-dependent. i'd hope that i'd be more lax if my kid were with-it but i probably wouldn't be if my kid were just too wild and mistake-prone to the point where i'd seriously worry. one thing that was interesting is hearing how hukuma grew up and he was allowed to run around moscow when he was like 8 by himself where here they'd be cracked down on real hard - but he was also much more mature, independent, and self-reliant than others at the same age here. i'm not sure that it makes sense to baby kids and treat them like children and talk to them in babytalk and treat them that way. even with the casa work i do, i never talk to the kids this way no matter what their age is. i always try to talk to them as an equal and i'm surprised at how effective that is, especially critical for the pre-teens and teens who are trying to learn to be adults and the last thing they need is to be talked to like children (but a surprising number of adults that i'd encountered did this - either the condescending tone or the authoritarian

[threadwalker]

Yes... tricky with siblings. My Dad's Dad grew up as a Missionary kid in China. He and his siblingsd were allowed the run of Beiging, unlike other Western kids in the neighborhood, and were also allowed to handle a small boat on the river. It was a case (as with my dad, and how my dad treated me) of challenging the kids, explaining the risks, teaching risk evaluation, and letting them learn things by experience

enjoy the woods...

[jasonlizard]

Speaking of the White Mountains, a really odd thing happened this weekend. I met your mom. We're up here visiting the P______ (P, D, and J) who are friends of my wife's from NYC. She and J spent their early years playing together. You mom was in town, as you probably know, due to her new house and job.

Anyway, small world.

Re: enjoy the woods...

[threadwalker]

You know the Palmers then? Oddness! Yeah, I grew up playing with J too- summers in Waterville Valley. Madness! How did you know it was my mom? Did you get to see the farm house down the road? Blueberry bushes???

Very small world. Madness.

[asakiyume]

Everywhere I go I'll miss something.

This is what my husband and I say, half joking, half serious. We've lived together in England, Japan, and the (northeastern) United States--everywhere you go, you end up nostalgic for some of the things in the other places, though you love the things that are great about the place that you're in.

I love the boulders and the ferns, and making maple syrup and picking black raspberries--but you're right about the variety and cultural liveliness of where you are now.

If you or a friend have a digital camera, get a pic of yourself on the stilts and put it up?

[threadwalker]

Awesome. Haven't lived in Japan, but Scotland, Netherlands, a few months in London, a few months in Cairo, LA, Chicago, Indiana, Boston, New Hampshire, and SF. :) Yes, much with the missing. I want to see Japan some day.

As to stilts pics... there's a couple on my Burning Man pictures site.

[asakiyume]

Those burning man pics were amazing. I just can't get over how spectacular the things people made are! I loved that horse made out of metal that you said breathed fire, and the clipper ship that you liked. The tent houses were great, too--I liked the Bedouin-looking one. But everyone wandering around w/shorts and bare arms and stuff in what must be broiling temperatures... don't you all get sunburned?

I'd go like a Bedouin, all wrapped up.

[threadwalker]

I generally did the Bedouin thing actually. :) Made sense to me! It is an amazing place. There is much with the sunscreen, and people carry water in camel-packs constantly. Going out into the playa without it is a death wish. It's an incredible, amazing, life-expanding thing.