I remember my friends and me managing pretty well without blueprints or a willing parent. In fact, the willing parents were the scarcest item on the materials list.
>>I remember my friends and me managing pretty well without blueprints or a willing parent. In fact, the willing parents were the scarcest item on the materials list.<<
One of the main problems with parenting I see today is mom and dad amusing the kids 24/7. Although we don't live in a world where kids can run the way they used to, they must be allowed to use their imaginations and amuse themselves.
In my homeschooling house, the kids are allowed to watch tv during breakfast and again while I make dinner. After a half an hour at each time, I tell them to play and use their imaginations. Whether we have other children here, we go to someone's house or we are here alone, I don't amuse my kids. When I play with them, I want to, not have to.
My four year old son and I built a birdhouse and a mailbox together this last weekend. Then we went out by the barn and he got to "fire" his BB gun for the first time. Guess what? He liked it (go figure). Our big Independence Day event was going to a pond near the house to fish.
Blueprints, hell I still can't read them today but we built some amazing forts. My favorite was a three room two story fort complete with real windows from a barn that was torn down. It stayed there for years and served in later years as a great spot to drink our warm beer that we had stashed there while we were oogling over the Playboy magazine stolen from one of the father's collection, later returned of course.
LOL!
tkx Ora.
Ms. Ingraham would appreciate that.
My mind is slipping.