This was good snow. It was wet enough that it didn’t scatter when shoveled, yet not heavy when scooped up. (So far, my back and hips feel OK.) And it was moldable enough that the guy played in it for two hours.
This February break, we didn’t want to go anywhere because we just went to New York. However, we also couldn’t come up with outside things to do here. So, most days, the guy read books, played his thirty minutes of Yoshi’s Crafted World each day, and played with Legos. He also cleaned his room because Katt made him do that.
At this point, he’s kind of an easy kid in that he never needs to be entertained. But sometimes I worry because what about Development? There’s the whole social thing where he doesn’t care about playing with kids outside of school, which we do about as much as we can with.
But that aside, shouldn’t he be doing things to develop, like Mitchel Resnick says kids should? Most of what he does is a form of consumption.
Probably, but also kids gotta spend time being happy. Not knowing what the balance should be between those two things, we just kind of leave it to chance. So, I’m glad it snowed and that he agreed to do some woodworking for extra video game time.
We can now put a big ✔ next to Had Experiences for this February break.