Comment by hunter-gatherer
9 hours ago
Hard agree. And a lot of unstructured play. Actually, that should all last well into their pre-teens IMO.
9 hours ago
Hard agree. And a lot of unstructured play. Actually, that should all last well into their pre-teens IMO.
...lots of unstructured play I surely did have with my slow as molasses bloated Pentium 4 machine with XP and no internet in my childhood. Developed a LOT of patience when downloading stuff from the Net (on 256Kbps, no less!) on one PC and moving it over to my machine.
256 whole kilobits per second? Talk about instant gratification. You kids and your fancy broadband connections, back in my day all we got was dial-up at 56k and we liked it!
> And a lot of unstructured play.
... which gets ever more hard to provide, sadly. Many people can't really afford an appropriately sized home - but in contrast to "earlier" times, can't send the kids outdoors as a replacement either as they're unsafe due to car-centric culture, the death of third spaces and, in the US, gun and other violence.