maybe it's all about attention span. this one article says kids these days just don't have it, can't read a book, can't even watch a whole movie. i realize i've had a problem with it all my life. even now i read six or seven books a week, but read them about ten minutes at a time, and have five or six open at any given time of the day. i. have to do it that way. some days a single book doesn't 'take,' i read it and don't get into it, and i have to switch books just to stay in the game. and it's been going on all my life.
i feel like telling my kids that if they do learn how to read a book, they'll be way better than all their classmates, and this is true. the world is full of kids like me. television and screens has done it to them, although i was born this way. now i have stuff i want to write, and kids, nine and ten, are shrieking and squawking downstairs as is their wont, and we, 72 and 68, are their foster parents with no one to give them back to, watching. them get back on their screens and chop up their attention span like you would a carrot for dinner. They're pretty normal kids aside from being traumatized by the explosive breakup of their family which they got removed from for like the second or third time. a little bottled up frustration and insecurity which is where the shrieking and squawking come from, probably, but what a dead setup for screen addiction you've never seen.
warm and steamy air has moved in where when i went outside i wasn't sure if it was raining or not, partly because of lots of trees and partly because it was so wet that you couldn't feel if it was drizzle or just wet air or what. i can't complain because actually it was a nice long spring with lots of rain and cool weather, and the garden has been going bonkers and very happy. some years it goes straight from winter to summer but this one we had a spring, more spring, plenty of spring. nice and green, and wet, and lush.
lots to do, hoping i can stick with it and get some writing done. look at the squares on the templates, and i'll be working on them, if i get the chance.
i feel like telling my kids that if they do learn how to read a book, they'll be way better than all their classmates, and this is true. the world is full of kids like me. television and screens has done it to them, although i was born this way. now i have stuff i want to write, and kids, nine and ten, are shrieking and squawking downstairs as is their wont, and we, 72 and 68, are their foster parents with no one to give them back to, watching. them get back on their screens and chop up their attention span like you would a carrot for dinner. They're pretty normal kids aside from being traumatized by the explosive breakup of their family which they got removed from for like the second or third time. a little bottled up frustration and insecurity which is where the shrieking and squawking come from, probably, but what a dead setup for screen addiction you've never seen.
warm and steamy air has moved in where when i went outside i wasn't sure if it was raining or not, partly because of lots of trees and partly because it was so wet that you couldn't feel if it was drizzle or just wet air or what. i can't complain because actually it was a nice long spring with lots of rain and cool weather, and the garden has been going bonkers and very happy. some years it goes straight from winter to summer but this one we had a spring, more spring, plenty of spring. nice and green, and wet, and lush.
lots to do, hoping i can stick with it and get some writing done. look at the squares on the templates, and i'll be working on them, if i get the chance.
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