Blake and I moved our family to Arizona because we don't believe kids should be allowed to play outside in the summer. We prefer sallow, sedentary children over the hardy, sunkissed kind. Thus, our kids busy summertime schedule goes something like this: an hour or two of the Nintendo DS, break for snack, hit the Wii track for a Mario Kart race, computer time, lunch, with reading and doodling after dessert.
I found Smalls, my eleven-year-old, so dubbed because he is an adult in a child's body, on the computer yesterday and decided to see what is it that so completely absorbs his little mind. He was on a website called "Scratch" that gives him the opportunity to create programs. He's made up games, commercials, a sports news broadcast and cartoons. He records his voice in different accents for the characters in his creations. Yesterday he made up this game that is fun for eyes.
Click the link below to "play" it for yourself. Adjust the "penshade" and use the arrow keys to make cool designs.
Scratch Project Rainbow Kaliedoscope
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My childhood is a universe away from the kidhood of this kid. While I regret that Smalls isn't able to play outside all the time like I did, I see perks. For one, he doesn't have to pull leeches off his legs when he's done playing, like I did as a kid exiting the gravel pit. He's developing some exciting talents that he may one day be able to use professionally. He's creating and expanding his mind power. It's an ok set-up for now, but we look forward to fall and winter when hibernation is over and we can rediscover running and frolicking.
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I yearn too, for Sarah to have a little of my childhood experience. Except that we spent much of our summers playing in swift irrigation canals, and then lying in the middle of bubbly tar roads to dry off.
Are you referring to the raft we used in the infamous gravel pit? If you are, I recall spending more time trying to prevent it from sinking to the bottom than actually floating on it.
which was probably why I was backfloating.
I like ConCon's creation
He's a genius kid. You know that, right? And when you're hibernation is coming to an end, ours will just be starting!
Backfloating or was that dry heaving? Brandon told me about the gravel pits.
As for your genius son. He's a genius.
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