01-15-2017, 09:28 AM
(01-15-2017, 08:57 AM)DaSwami_imp Wrote: Ferret,
While I admire your detail and recordkeeping, you do seem to suffer a bit from some form of OCD. Jeez Louis, I've never seen anything like that. I mean I keep all my receipts, but I don't exactly LOOK at them.
Stichill,
Life seems gray and drab to the millennials BECAUSE of their virtual online lives they have lived since they were little. Just a sea of digital emptiness and overloaded stimulation. I disagree, I think what's at their fingertips is very boring but they don't know what else to do.
I did everything I could to drag my kids away from the screen. We live in the country where we can ride dirt bikes, shoot guns, hike in the woods, play in the creek, cut up firewood, plant a garden, study nature, drive a tractor, go swimming, climb a tree, swing on a rope, play in the snow, look at the night sky...it's all there for the taking. I'd get them outdoors on occasion but most of the time they'd just say "No thanks, Dad." and stay indoors.
I guess some people simply ban screens in their kids' lives but then you worry about pushing them out of sync with their peers or stunting their ability to function in the future digital world.
When they got old enough, at some point I realized they didn't really care if Dad was around to do things with them on the weekend anyway, so I starting riding street and never looked back! They can have their screens and I'll take a winding road and a willing machine.
