Before the advent of TV, Internet, Console Games, how did parents keep from getting nagged constantly by kids (cartoon, chores)
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My kids are in their early 20s and they played outside almost constantly. They didn't start spending more time playing video games until they were teenagers and not playing outside in the neighborhood, but they still had sports, jobs, dates, etc., to keep them busy.
When I'd complain to my father that I was bored, he pulled a book off of the shelves and handed it to me. Guess what I did? I'd read it. That's how I read most of the great classics. My kids were no different. They'd read when I handed them a book too.
I played outside a lot until I hit about 7th grade and even then my friends and I would walk around outside and go to kohls or get food. We didn't play but we didn't sit around either.
High school was a different story. You couldn't get me out of the house unless it revolved around my school sports and going to do something with my friends like shopping or the movies. Other than that we all sat at my house(my mom was the only parent who didn't bother us the whole time) bored out of our minds flipping through the stations and updating our myspace backgrounds. Occasionally we'd venture outside to go stare at the hot popular guys who lived in my neighborhood.
Before the advent of TV, internet, and console gaming, how on earth did our ancestors keep their kids from nagging them every constanst second.
When I look at myself, if I had no TV when I was kid, I dont know what I would have done for a large portion of the day. Maybe I would have been outside more playing.
What did kids in the 60s, 50s, civil war era, and before do to keep their ADHD occupied?
I grew up in the 50's and 60's. There were 5 of us kids and we lived in a subdivision. If we were not in school we were outside playing. We'd play in the yard, or walk around in the fields around us etc. We did not spend that much time in the house except after dinner and before bed. We only watched tv in the evenings, except for the weekend when we would see cartoons on Saturday mornings.
Before the advent of TV, internet, and console gaming, how on earth did our ancestors keep their kids from nagging them every constanst second.
When I look at myself, if I had no TV when I was kid, I dont know what I would have done for a large portion of the day. Maybe I would have been outside more playing.
What did kids in the 60s, 50s, civil war era, and before do to keep their ADHD occupied?
I didnt have a TV in the house till I was about eleven or twelve... and thank god for it.. as Id never have gone out to play.. I had a good time out every day even in the rain.. playing on rollerskates, my old bike.. peever or hopscotch as some call it.. doublers with two balls against a wall.. picnics in the local parks.. fishing for tadpoles in summer.. kick the can with friends.. a sort of hide and seek game played in Glasgow.... Kids used their imaginations a lot more..and were thinner and healthier..
I grew up in the 70s, we did have a TV but only 3 channels and no morning shows! ( that was not in the US).
We also did not have a backyard the first few years, so we would read (or be read to) and play in our rooms. Nothing special, and we were not traumatized, neither were my parents!
Before the advent of TV, internet, and console gaming, how on earth did our ancestors keep their kids from nagging them every constanst second.
When I look at myself, if I had no TV when I was kid, I dont know what I would have done for a large portion of the day. Maybe I would have been outside more playing.
What did kids in the 60s, 50s, civil war era, and before do to keep their ADHD occupied?
We played with friends... inside and/or outside.
No ADHD involved.
There is way too much fear these days. I have 4 and 5 year old boys that I let play outside by themselves almost every day. When I'm inside, they need to stay in the fenced in back yard. If I'm outside, they have free roam of the yard. I've had other parents ask me incredulously "you let them outside ALONE?!?!" Yes, I do.
We had tv, computers etc when I was growing up but we still played outside lots in the garden or rollerskating in the local streets or in an empty carpark. If we complained of being bored my parents would find us a job to do! Or tell us how lucky we are to be bored as opposed to be stuck working hard.
If my toddler is nagging me too much I send her outside to play, there's nearly always other kids out to play with, or she plays in the garden (and sometimes the other kids come join her).
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