We live in an era where...
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@Veet said in We live in an era where...:
btw, you mentioned you're in Europe ... but, whereabouts, in Europe ?
LOL, well at the moment, Texas. I was in NY last week.
We are calling Romania home, more than anywhere else these days. I was just talking to some kids in the village not half an hour ago on Facebook. Central Transylvania, we are house shopping there out in the country.
We move around a lot. Current best guess plan is that we will be spending the autumn in Mexico and Belize, then winter in southern Italy and up to the house in Romania in the spring.
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sounds awesome ...
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@scottalanmiller said in We live in an era where...:
We work really hard to let our kids have a good outdoor experience and a good video game one. We live in cool European villages with great playgrounds and stuff. But we also set them up with Steam and loads of interesting, thought provoking games. And lots of games that they can play with others.
The things that I seek to avoid are based on passivity, rather than technology. The things that I like them doing the least are watching television or reading books.... passive activities where you just zone out. They are okay in small amounts, but video games or imagination games or physical activities are so much better. Things that engage the brain, rather than shutting it off.
I definitely consider television a passive activity. Reading, not so much. It takes brain power to read and construct the images in your own mind based on what you are reading. A well written book [regardless of topic], to me, is just as beautiful as anything else to me. Worlds can be made and destroyed. Wars can be fought and won...or lost... all within the confines of your own mind.
Ideas can be planted, things can be understood, all be cause of the power of the written word. If you don't encourage reading... why do you write your own blog?
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@scottalanmiller said in We live in an era where...:
We are calling Romania home, more than anywhere else these days.
Beautiful place, I hear ... One of the more under-rated European countries... it's my dream to drive/ride on the The Transfagarasan mountain road
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@dafyre said in We live in an era where...:
@scottalanmiller said in We live in an era where...:
We work really hard to let our kids have a good outdoor experience and a good video game one. We live in cool European villages with great playgrounds and stuff. But we also set them up with Steam and loads of interesting, thought provoking games. And lots of games that they can play with others.
The things that I seek to avoid are based on passivity, rather than technology. The things that I like them doing the least are watching television or reading books.... passive activities where you just zone out. They are okay in small amounts, but video games or imagination games or physical activities are so much better. Things that engage the brain, rather than shutting it off.
I definitely consider television a passive activity. Reading, not so much. It takes brain power to read and construct the images in your own mind based on what you are reading. A well written book [regardless of topic], to me, is just as beautiful as anything else to me. Worlds can be made and destroyed. Wars can be fought and won...or lost... all within the confines of your own mind.
Ideas can be planted, things can be understood, all be cause of the power of the written word. If you don't encourage reading... why do you write your own blog?
You can say the same things about television or being told a story, I actually find listening to a book slightly less passive than actually reading because I'm so much less likely to just fall asleep or skip whole sections with my eyes moving but my brain disengages. Reading lets you imagine, but doesn't make you. It isn't interactive and doesn't engage you. You are still being fed everything. Culturally we accept it as being a technology that isn't treated as technology and an exception from passivity concerns, but in reality, it's far closer to television than to video games.
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@Veet said in We live in an era where...:
@scottalanmiller said in We live in an era where...:
We are calling Romania home, more than anywhere else these days.
Beautiful place, I hear ... One of the more under-rated European countries... it's my dream to drive/ride on the The Transfagarasan mountain road
It's an amazing place, we really love it. Our village is in the heart of Transylvania and very, very far from everything. Totally remote. Horse drawn carts are the standard transportation.
We drove the road next to that one, my wife gets sick on those, though, so we try to avoid them. I'm a "driver" though and want to do it sometime. I know where all the good roads are in the mountains
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@scottalanmiller said in We live in an era where...:
@Veet said in We live in an era where...:
@scottalanmiller said in We live in an era where...:
We are calling Romania home, more than anywhere else these days.
Beautiful place, I hear ... One of the more under-rated European countries... it's my dream to drive/ride on the The Transfagarasan mountain road
It's an amazing place, we really love it. Our village is in the heart of Transylvania and very, very far from everything. Totally remote. Horse drawn carts are the standard transportation.
We drove the road next to that one, my wife gets sick on those, though, so we try to avoid them. I'm a "driver" though and want to do it sometime. I know where all the good roads are in the mountains
Stop reminding me of nightmares made from "You want me to take this semi where?"
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@scottalanmiller said in We live in an era where...:
@dafyre said in We live in an era where...:
@scottalanmiller said in We live in an era where...:
We work really hard to let our kids have a good outdoor experience and a good video game one. We live in cool European villages with great playgrounds and stuff. But we also set them up with Steam and loads of interesting, thought provoking games. And lots of games that they can play with others.
The things that I seek to avoid are based on passivity, rather than technology. The things that I like them doing the least are watching television or reading books.... passive activities where you just zone out. They are okay in small amounts, but video games or imagination games or physical activities are so much better. Things that engage the brain, rather than shutting it off.
I definitely consider television a passive activity. Reading, not so much. It takes brain power to read and construct the images in your own mind based on what you are reading. A well written book [regardless of topic], to me, is just as beautiful as anything else to me. Worlds can be made and destroyed. Wars can be fought and won...or lost... all within the confines of your own mind.
Ideas can be planted, things can be understood, all be cause of the power of the written word. If you don't encourage reading... why do you write your own blog?
You can say the same things about television or being told a story, I actually find listening to a book slightly less passive than actually reading because I'm so much less likely to just fall asleep or skip whole sections with my eyes moving but my brain disengages. Reading lets you imagine, but doesn't make you. It isn't interactive and doesn't engage you. You are still being fed everything. Culturally we accept it as being a technology that isn't treated as technology and an exception from passivity concerns, but in reality, it's far closer to television than to video games.
That depends on how you read. For me, I've always been an imaginative person, so when I"m reading, I tend to not skip paragraphs or pages (or chapters)... because it's like watching a movie in my head. My brain still gets the exercise. Although you do have a good point about audio books too.
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@dafyre said in We live in an era where...:
@scottalanmiller said in We live in an era where...:
@dafyre said in We live in an era where...:
@scottalanmiller said in We live in an era where...:
We work really hard to let our kids have a good outdoor experience and a good video game one. We live in cool European villages with great playgrounds and stuff. But we also set them up with Steam and loads of interesting, thought provoking games. And lots of games that they can play with others.
The things that I seek to avoid are based on passivity, rather than technology. The things that I like them doing the least are watching television or reading books.... passive activities where you just zone out. They are okay in small amounts, but video games or imagination games or physical activities are so much better. Things that engage the brain, rather than shutting it off.
I definitely consider television a passive activity. Reading, not so much. It takes brain power to read and construct the images in your own mind based on what you are reading. A well written book [regardless of topic], to me, is just as beautiful as anything else to me. Worlds can be made and destroyed. Wars can be fought and won...or lost... all within the confines of your own mind.
Ideas can be planted, things can be understood, all be cause of the power of the written word. If you don't encourage reading... why do you write your own blog?
You can say the same things about television or being told a story, I actually find listening to a book slightly less passive than actually reading because I'm so much less likely to just fall asleep or skip whole sections with my eyes moving but my brain disengages. Reading lets you imagine, but doesn't make you. It isn't interactive and doesn't engage you. You are still being fed everything. Culturally we accept it as being a technology that isn't treated as technology and an exception from passivity concerns, but in reality, it's far closer to television than to video games.
That depends on how you read. For me, I've always been an imaginative person, so when I"m reading, I tend to not skip paragraphs or pages (or chapters)... because it's like watching a movie in my head. My brain still gets the exercise. Although you do have a good point about audio books too.
I only skip when I'm tired or get distracted. Problem is, I'm too imaginative and I get lost in thought while reading but my eyes keep going.
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@scottalanmiller Solution: back to Polaroids!
