Posted on 07/16/2006 4:23:40 PM PDT by fgoodwin
Are your children bored this summer? Good! If your children like to stay in bed until lunchtime, then slouch around saying there’s nothing to do – don’t worry, it’s no bad thing. Joan McFadden explains
I'm bored right now. It is not a pleasant experience at all.
What's that drippping sound?
Oh, just my sanity...
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If they're bored and don't want or can't go outside to play, take them to the library or a used book store and get some good books for them to read or you to read to them.
I grew up in the country and don't recall being bored for very long. Usually right up until my mom offered to give me something to do.
geez! we have so few "slouch around days" here they're treated like holidays! and we have long since given up on sending any
of the kids to any sort of camps, there just is not enough
time! just getting everyone in the car to go out to dinner
is like herding kittens ;)
we had a place on 4 acres in michigan when our oldest
(now 17) was 4 or 5. he was up with the birds and stayed
outside ALL day! that child plucked tomatos and beans from
my garden when he was hungry. he, er, didn't even come in
to use the, er, facilities ;)
we still laugh about it, and he laughs the loudest!
My friends and I used to play outside in the summer from morning until night, ride bicycles for miles, did all kinds of stuff that are frowned upon today.
Let's see....
it usually went: "You're not sitting around watching TV all day" followed by "Find something to do or I'll find something for you."
In evolutionary terms, the age of five or six has always been a crucial stage, at which youngsters naturally tend to stop spending so much time with their parents, and seek the company of their peers.
Evolutionary terms? What a joke.
Small wonder why every time I walk by a park on weekends I see a large number of minivans parked there and children playing in the park with parents tagging along nearly.
"Bored school pupils should perhaps alert us to the need for a different kind of educational engagement. "
School is school. It's traditionally boring, there's nothing to be done to fix that. Trust me, I'm still IN school! :)
But, with this "different kind of educational engagement", are they proposing more student-interactive cirricula involving groupwork and projects to catch students' interests? Believe me, this doesn't work. In fact, it is responsible for the downfall of the quality of education in America. In my sophomore and junior-year English classes, I had this communist for a teacher and all we did was groupwork, groupwork, make posters, and more groupwork. I learned absolutely nothing at all about English. It was all "how do you feel about this?" and crap like that. And as for groupwork, the slackers let the industrious students do all the work yet everyone gets the same good grade. Hence, the communism at work.
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