http://blackberryvillage.wordpress.com/2007/10/06/kids-these-days%e2%80%a6-my-lightbulb-moment/ Life and times of a Mum and Businesswoman in Rural Ireland! Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:31:50 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://blackberryvillage.wordpress.com/2007/10/06/kids-these-days%e2%80%a6-my-lightbulb-moment/#comment-12 Helen Clarke Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:31:50 +0000 http://blackberryvillage.wordpress.com/2007/10/06/kids-these-days%e2%80%a6-my-lightbulb-moment/#comment-12 I so agree with you. We have to live for today and let our kids do the same. As a mammy of two small boys (3 and a half years and 22 months old) I would love them to have all the "nice" bits of my childhood and all the "nice" bits of their own childhood! This I figure is not going to be possible so it is far better to teach them to enjoy every day as it comes, to appreciate the simple things as well as the modern, highly technical things and to just be nice! I so agree with you. We have to live for today and let our kids do the same. As a mammy of two small boys (3 and a half years and 22 months old) I would love them to have all the “nice” bits of my childhood and all the “nice” bits of their own childhood! This I figure is not going to be possible so it is far better to teach them to enjoy every day as it comes, to appreciate the simple things as well as the modern, highly technical things and to just be nice!

]]> http://blackberryvillage.wordpress.com/2007/10/06/kids-these-days%e2%80%a6-my-lightbulb-moment/#comment-9 Anne Hannan Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:41:21 +0000 http://blackberryvillage.wordpress.com/2007/10/06/kids-these-days%e2%80%a6-my-lightbulb-moment/#comment-9 Well said Cris, I am frequently astonished at the sophistication of my 9 year old daughter. Like your boy, she knows the names of all the dinosaurs, their diets and their habitats, she knows words like carnivore, herbivore etc. She can get instant feedback for her insatiable curiousity thanks to the internet and the magic of discovery channel etc. I sometimes panic that she spends too much time online, on her DS, in front of the TV etc. and yet despite her knowledge and vocabulary which is way beyond anything I would have used at her age she is still just a 9 year old girl. She is not 'too mature' or interested in things that shouldn't interest a 9 year old if you know what I mean. In some respects she has more freedom than previous generations had because the world is available to her through technology. True she isn't as free to go out into the world as much as we could but thinking back on some episodes of all our childhoods perhaps we never should have had that freedom. Well said Cris, I am frequently astonished at the sophistication of my 9 year old daughter. Like your boy, she knows the names of all the dinosaurs, their diets and their habitats, she knows words like carnivore, herbivore etc. She can get instant feedback for her insatiable curiousity thanks to the internet and the magic of discovery channel etc. I sometimes panic that she spends too much time online, on her DS, in front of the TV etc. and yet despite her knowledge and vocabulary which is way beyond anything I would have used at her age she is still just a 9 year old girl. She is not ‘too mature’ or interested in things that shouldn’t interest a 9 year old if you know what I mean. In some respects she has more freedom than previous generations had because the world is available to her through technology. True she isn’t as free to go out into the world as much as we could but thinking back on some episodes of all our childhoods perhaps we never should have had that freedom.

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