What are you going to do today?

[Phoenix]

Only about 1/4 to 1/3 of the cub's toys use batteries. I've gone out of my way to get him some quality wooden toys, which do still exist out there, plus there are things like duplo and cars and hand puppets.

Oh, I know they're out there. That's the way I chose to parent my kids as well. It's just not so much the norm anymore. I loved buying the youngest Melissa and Doug toys. Anything I bought from that line held up well.

[DirtDawg]

Today is a ladder day for me.  Meaning I am going to spend a great deal of my day going up and down ladders. I know some may do this for a living and it is no big deal. With my left hip now acting up some (my right hip has been replaced with a titanium, machined substitute and it is quite stable) I feel a little "iffy" with my feet venturing past the dependability of good old terra firma.

My daughter is upholding her end of the "bargain" I made with her. I asked that she show the same degree of enthusiasm putting all this Christmas stuff away that she shows while dragging it all out and vomiting it all over our house and in return, I will help her do both.

Time to pay up. She is boxing it all up and now I have to find places for it back in the "semi-attic" space set aside for such frivolities.
I promised, she promised and now Christmas shit is all coming to an end!

[DirtDawg]

Only about 1/4 to 1/3 of the cub's toys use batteries. I've gone out of my way to get him some quality wooden toys, which do still exist out there, plus there are things like duplo and cars and hand puppets.

Great job!!

There is a group of older wood workers, both men and women, here in town who spend most of the year building just such old fashioned toys for kids and they sell or donate them to various "child support centers"  around the area. About twelve years ago I bought a hand made pull wagon for my younglings. I have long since donated it back to the center.

I can remember when I was a child, my grandfather gave me a small hammer and a box of small nails and two (just two, mind you) pieces of wood to nail together.  The lessons learned from that toy have stuck!

 

[Pyraxis]

I'm looking forward to when he's old enough for a real little tool kit.

There have been several woodworkers in my family and I actually have a few toys that have been passed down from previous generations. One is a truck - like a full rig with separate engine car and freight parts, with a set of logs (dowels) to carry, which was my grandmother's when she was little. There's also a car shaped like a turtle that was my aunt's, and a set of wooden blocks that my grandfather made for my brother and I. It includes a couple six-inch-high arches that have been tooled to be perfectly round.

[odeon]

Speaking of not being able to read: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/business/cell-phone-addiction.html

That doesn't surprise me. Although it doesn't apply to me. I take regular hiatuses and and hate using my cell. But the attention span thing is very real for so many people. I worry more about my kids than I do myself in that regard. Well not my oldest. He's not big into his phone. My daughter is another story however which is why I still keep her love of art and books at the forefront. I worry sometimes about the amount of tech kids grow up with.

I don't think it's the tech by itself as much as social media, tbh. I mean, the tech allows us to carry most of human knowledge in our pockets but we use it to like memes and post selfies, not to mention cat pics.

I agree overall but I miss the days when the majority of kids toys didn't require batteries. It seems like constant noise and lights and whatnot and it starts so young

Oh yes, agreed.

[Phoenix]

SO had to go in for a shift today so I'm getting the oldest to/from work, youngest is with her Dad and I'm going to enjoy a day of nobody being home but me. This will include a lot reading, a bit of napping with the pups and some cleaning. Emphasis on reading and napping though 

[Genesis]

Making a wish... after all it is 11:11

[renaeden]

Go to the chemist. I've run out of haloperidol.

[Phoenix]

Go to a surprise party for a friend in the afternoon and then out dancing with friends tonight. Wish they weren't happening on the same day. I've been up since 3am and no hope of a nap beforehand.

[Genesis]

Dinner Party with a family friend...

[DirtDawg]

Later today I intend to head over to the apartment where my daughter will be moving into soon and help (think, bring tools and just do it all) set up a few "boxed furniture - think IKEA style" pieces.

I will demand coffee.

[odeon]

We'll visit my daughter and her boyfriend's new place and see if they need any help setting things up.

[Phoenix]

Holy crap. The debauchery on here has turned into responsible parenting of the younger generation. I'm feeling every bit our age right now 

[Genesis]

I already did today... I'm hiding in my basement for the rest of the night

[Phoenix]

I already did today... I'm hiding in my basement for the rest of the night

I totally support this. Hiding is good when today has too much of a day