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Post by robeiae on Mar 14, 2017 8:57:14 GMT -5
There's a big snowstorm going on in the Northeast US; everyone probably knows that. And it's big enough to shut down airports and close schools; that's hardly unexpected or unusual. Especially the last: snow days have been around forever. So that means kids who are usually in school spend the day at home. Shocking stuff, right? I has snow days when I was a youngster. What did I do? Played with friends outside or inside, watched TV, played boardgames, read books, and so on. Apparently however, some parents are at a loss on how to keep kids occupied for the extra six or seven hours they spend at home on such days: Help! What to do with the kids during a snowstormIt is is, I think, both instructive and somewhat sad that the first go-to options are non-stop video games and/or movies. Regardless, are people really so hapless now that they need help to find something for their kids to do on a snow day? Are kids going to die if they aren't being entertained non-stop by a parent? |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2017 9:21:39 GMT -5
When I was a kid growing up in the Buffalo area, snowdays were pretty routine. We had a couple storms where we couldn't leave the house to play outside for days at a time, (If the storm wasn't dangerous, by the way, all the kids in the neighborhood would surely spend it outside building snow forts. Entertainmemt problem solved.)
We even lost power for a couple of consecutive days, so no TV. So what do you do?
You huddle around the fireplace, wrapped in blankets, and play board games. You play with legos. You draw. You read. You build a fort in the living room using blankets and chairs. I had dolls. My brother had some kind of hot wheels race track set that took over the living room.
The only thing I recall my parents doing with us was playing board games sometimes in the evenings. Sometimes they'd yell at us to keep the noise down. But I cannot recall being bored pretty much ever, or requiring my parents to entertain us, and we didn't have nearly the range of electronic games and such kids have now.
To be fair, my nieces and nephew do a pretty good job of entertaining themselves, though they do make a lot of noise and mess in the process.
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Post by Vince524 on Mar 14, 2017 11:02:58 GMT -5
Kids these days are so used to being plugged in. Lose power, you lose internet, and it might as well be the beginning of the Zombie Apocalypse. (But without the added charm of being allowed to use a crossbow or katana to kill walkers.)
When I was a kid, we didn't have internet yet. (My kids would chime in that it they had just invented the wheel and discovered fire.) I would either go out and get into snowball fights, or sled down the neighbors driveway that had a big slope to it. Or stay indoors, drink hot chocolate, play board games, read books, write stories, or play with my Star Wars action figures or superheros. Or if I was young enough, tuck a blanket into the back of my t-shirt, run around in my underoos and continue the further adventures of Super Vin. (Yes, that's true. Yes, I still do it when I'm alone.)
We're all home for the day. College kids are all home for Spring Break. (Irony?) My wife is cussing up a storm, yelling Eat Me. (She's playing Ms. Pacman.) The kids are still asleep as it's only noon. I'm trying to edit and write.
If the power goes out? Maybe my wife's attitude will catch and we'll all eat each other? I don't know. Yotham has no idea what to do with himself if he has no internet. Unless we indulge his Monopoly addiction, but then he transforms into a cartoon character and slaughters us all.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2017 11:20:24 GMT -5
I could do work, write, clean my house...but I have a sudden, irresistible urge to watch Clash of the Titans (1981 version) for the eleventy millionth time.
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