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Her auntie took her down to Oregon fair for a couple weeks. They pulled in last night at 10:30.
O, man, it's hard to let go of an 11yr old for such a big trip, even with someone as safe and caring as an auntie! It's good for all, tho. My girl, we'll call Kitten, she's a budding artist. I think she got a lot out of the sites and sounds. She came back with drawings of her own and bought art, and stories, stories, stories.
My heart is filled with happiness that she could experience this, a little green that I didn't go, and a hope that she'll take the trip and use it as a grounding point when going into that big, big highschool next year.
O, man, it's hard to let go of an 11yr old for such a big trip, even with someone as safe and caring as an auntie! It's good for all, tho. My girl, we'll call Kitten, she's a budding artist. I think she got a lot out of the sites and sounds. She came back with drawings of her own and bought art, and stories, stories, stories.
My heart is filled with happiness that she could experience this, a little green that I didn't go, and a hope that she'll take the trip and use it as a grounding point when going into that big, big highschool next year.
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Re: My daughter's back!
Sat, July 15, 2006 - 11:39 AMI think its good for kids to get out on their own. I know the media tries to scare everyone into thinking that everyone out there is a predator and they should keep their children locked up watching TV all day, but thta is an overreaction. When I was only 3, I would escape the house, take off all my clothes except for my boots and hat, and go for walks of 3-10 miles, even sometimes through the snow. During the day my mom only had to worry if I had been gone more than 16 hours. When I was 10, I had no problem taking an airplane from Singapore to Los Angeles unaccompanied, including an overnight stay in Hong Kong. -
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Re: My daughter's back!
Sun, July 16, 2006 - 7:44 AMLarf! You made me splash mint tea and honey outa me nose. Sounds like my guy, his mother would get calls saying he was up the radio tower again. He was 2.
I agree, I've heard reports about cities trying to get families to let their children out to the playground again. The streets have been bare for 10 yrs. I worry about the amounts of shut-ins we'll have with this generation. It's going to be a problem. Already, I've heard of specific RPGs that've inspired ppl to stop eating, washing, sleeping. People have been found dead from gaming OD.
I do go on about this stuff a bit much, tho. My 16 yr old told me he hadn't seen any beetles lately. To which I replied "YOU SEE???? If you'd get out and sit under a tree once in a while, you'd see a beetle. Why, when I was a kid......." He had a very perplexed look on his face 'til later in the conversation, which lasted rediculously long, when he figured out he was talking volkswagon beetles and I was talking bugs.
Now, 3 days after the girl's gotten home, she's bored. I told her to climb a tree (something that's worked since she was about 5) but she figures she'd get up there and suddenly be bored again. Then she spotted the multicolored playdough I got for a project. I was quite pleased with my duck-chicken with no legs.
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Re: My daughter's back!
Sun, July 16, 2006 - 11:13 AMWe talked on another tribe about how we both have large mazes and I've found they are great for the kids to go off and have fun in. Ours don't seem big enough to get up a tree on their own yet. I've been thinking of building a tree house.
Yes, I read that each year like a dozen people die in Korea from playing games. It's the same illness frequent flyers die from, where they sit too long and a blood clot forms and they die. -
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Re: My daughter's back!
Tue, July 18, 2006 - 10:20 PMYea, Trog, I know you (sure you don't know anybody that lived in a bog?). Tree forts are the best. My twin cousins built one 8 stories high when I was but a wee lass. All sorts of traps and sticky messes to make intruders sorry they tried to get up to the penthouse. I was allowed. I suspect the mazes are just as much fun. Your maze is willow? Ours is and it's pretty magical. There's stuff in there that I don't know about, and have to be informed every time I go in like 'there's that trap I set for the boys last year', or 'Oh! this is my favourite spot!' pointing to a low opening thru which you can go into a little room. I go out there looking for diamond willow for carving all winter but don't remember much for 'spots' where they know the whole woods like the backs of their hands.
Just saw David Suzuki (you know him?) talk about his child hood and how his parents never telling him to get those icky pollywogs out of the house inspired him to do what he does. He's my hero, by the way, so I'm currently figuring out which jars my kids can take out to catch whatever's out there. They've brought lots of frogs back but I have to admit, they have remained outside.
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