tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post1271770148422232058..comments2023-11-02T03:51:39.411-04:00Comments on FISHY2ME: Learning To Be A Dinosaurfishyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15169980377922293950noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-45069585506301287562013-02-22T12:09:56.595-05:002013-02-22T12:09:56.595-05:00Sandcastle Mama,
Have I ever mentioned how much I ...Sandcastle Mama,<br />Have I ever mentioned how much I like your blog name? The first time I read it I thought, <br />"I need to meet her!"<br /><br />I agree, there are limits and by setting these, hopefully this youngest generation will stay anchored in the big, beautiful, real world.<br /><br />Aunty,<br />Yep, that was a stitch.<br /><br />Serendipity,<br />I always have a good time playing at your place. See you Monday.fishyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15169980377922293950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-23141382881459859552013-02-21T22:17:51.998-05:002013-02-21T22:17:51.998-05:00Hi Fishy,
You always have an interesting post! ...Hi Fishy, <br /><br />You always have an interesting post! Hopefully you will have a Haiku this week. Becca can't host so I am filling in for her. Come play.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-54275521371580724552013-02-21T19:19:20.361-05:002013-02-21T19:19:20.361-05:00 Howling in laughter at Island Rider!! Howling in laughter at Island Rider!!Aunty Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13868780211706866610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-65108000898407263722013-02-21T17:38:28.921-05:002013-02-21T17:38:28.921-05:00We always took our children out to eat with us and...We always took our children out to eat with us and were blessed that the first 2 would color and chat quietly with us. The third one wasn't so good at that and dinner out was not a real pleasant experience until he got a little older. I see it as a 50/50 thing - half good that children are learning and half bad that most of them always have their face stuck in something. My kids are older now and we don't allow electronics when we are having family time. But I can also see the appeal of having dinner out with your husband and not having to pay for a babysitter. I do think a line should be drawn about amount time spent on stuff like that. Sandcastle Mommahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11909850898687059507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-78855269208003753442013-02-19T17:56:44.810-05:002013-02-19T17:56:44.810-05:00Island Rider,
Ahhh! Life's memorable moments!Island Rider,<br />Ahhh! Life's memorable moments!fishyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15169980377922293950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-79273161318872311372013-02-19T17:43:44.266-05:002013-02-19T17:43:44.266-05:00Well, I must confess to a IPad in church moment th...Well, I must confess to a IPad in church moment that did not turn out well for this dinosaur. While travelling to see adopted daughter, I thought I would lighten my baggage load and not take my big Bible, but only the electronic version on my IPad. I felt quite young and hip pulling it out to read scripture in the service until, the IPad starting reading it for me - out loud. It took a real young hip person to reach over the pew and turn it off. Never again!Island Riderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04338707720934732800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-60786366016680560252013-02-19T10:16:51.608-05:002013-02-19T10:16:51.608-05:00pretty soon, people, if we make it another generat...pretty soon, people, if we make it another generation or so (doubtful) will be like those giant brains in a glass jar like on star trek. you wont need to lug your fat GMO ass around anymore: you can be a freaking elite athlete in your virtual world! YAY!<br /><br />we are breeding a generation of dolts. you might be able to manage in a techno matrix, but the unpredictable stuff of life cannot be anticipated or programed. <br /><br />My friends ex-husband decided he was bored enough to start having sex in a virtual world called "second life". My friend discover his activity because she saw on his AMEX bill, real "first life" money being spent in a virtual sex-club. sure enough, the avatar he was shagging ended up busting through to his real life and now we have a full blown affair, the destruction of a marriage and so forth.<br /><br />I go out to have drinks with girls. everybody looking at their phones - including me. <br />chickoryhttp://chickory.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-52845349366068338622013-02-18T18:09:20.386-05:002013-02-18T18:09:20.386-05:00Hey Buzz!
I liked your Klondike post. It's nic...Hey Buzz!<br />I liked your Klondike post. It's nice to see you posting again, and visiting. <br /><br />So do the Scouts embrace virtual scouting now or is it required for the activities to be real? Do you find it harder to get the current scouts to engage with each other on projects or even in conversations? <br /><br />You are in engineering, a field heavily dependent on computers right? So, do you view the coming generation of Gig Brains as a positive for business but a negative for playground interactions?fishyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15169980377922293950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-5135907411315031252013-02-18T14:35:16.240-05:002013-02-18T14:35:16.240-05:00I'm right there with you on cell phones/ipads ...I'm right there with you on cell phones/ipads being the downfall of civilization. When I drive past a school, it's like the zombie apocolypse already happened the way all (not just some) of the kids wander aimlessly with their faces looking down into their hand.<br /><br />I will however side with the parents at the restaurant. If we had that kind of technology when the boys were that age, we'd of used it too. I can't tell you how many family restraunt meals ended up being "to go". <br /><br />And we have video tapes that I don't know what we'll do with. I guess we'll eventually have them digitized. The Mrs still will have pictures from family vacations printed and put into a vacation scrap book though. I think in anticipation of our senior years when when we'll be too blind to see a monitor. <br /><br />The Mrs. and I went out to a local Mexican restaurant for Valentines and it was very nice. I had a chorizo enchilada that was way better than it sounds.Buzz Killhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01443964019621130222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-66899593149553514232013-02-18T11:00:02.768-05:002013-02-18T11:00:02.768-05:00Island Rider,
I agree there are several issues be...Island Rider,<br />I agree there are several issues beyond the standard family, etiquette, appropriateness issues.<br /><br />There will be big challenges to raising children who are actually physically different. Scientists can map the differences in their brain development. The same part of the brain is not used for all types of learning and so forth. This does lead one to believe it will be crucial to unplug these children so other development, like the interpersonal skills you mention, can be developed simultaneously with the "Gig-Brain".<br /><br />A plus to all the new knowledge about brain types and development is they have learned many children with learning disabilities can be CURED by the programs developed to retrain the brain after a stroke. <br /><br />Conversely, there is evidence some stroke patients are best helped by computer learning because it DOES use a different part of the brain.<br /><br />I do agree with you families will need to have rules about what and where ... we certainly were not allowed to bring books to the dinner table! <br /><br />One of the things which still shocks me is the need in a CHURCH for the clergy or a staff member to have to ask the congregation to please silence and put away all cell phones and other media devices during services. More shocking is to both hear and see the request is mostly ignored!<br /><br />Pam,<br />So nice of you to visit the Pond! You have been missed. So will the Man Cave in your house become the depository/museum for out of date technology? (I actually have for the past decade encouraged clients to add a storeroom to their floor plans) <br /><br />I think every generation has resorted to entertaining the kids to the degree necessary ... with keys,or watches or sweets. What, for me, was noteworthy about the family with daughters is both girls were old enough to be expected to behave correctly and engage in family conversation. Instead this was two different date nights in one, Mom and dad were on their dinner date while their girls were on a play date. <br /><br />I guess the question is if this really is any different from our parents having dinner in the clubhouse while we kids swam and had hamburgers at the poolside grill?<br /><br />I do agree with you , parents will need to focus on developing social skills in these plugged in kids. Mostly I think the GRAND parents are going to be the heroes on this point.<br /><br />On the cultural issue .... what happens in schools when a child which has been using technology since birth occupies a classroom with a child who has not? Even one who does not know basic things like colors, shapes, numbers or letters?<br /><br />Another HUGE socio-economic shift is coming.fishyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15169980377922293950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-85216717521767947302013-02-17T23:48:38.129-05:002013-02-17T23:48:38.129-05:00There's gotta be a time and a place. That fam...There's gotta be a time and a place. That family may have been together, but were they, really? With the kids nose down into the gadget? Of course, would you feel different about it the kids had their nose down into a real book? I also worry about the new generation's ability to communicate -- plust here are so many subtle signs of non-verbal communication. Will they learn that? But their world will be much different than ours, and it is theirs to do with it what they will. I say this after spending the afternoon boxing up old music CD's to send up to the mancave -- a couple of good size boxes. Technology has put them into my computer and back out into an Ipod the size of my palm. It can't all be bad.pamokchttp://www.pamokc.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-14228095140289421932013-02-17T20:14:07.291-05:002013-02-17T20:14:07.291-05:00While I know our world is changing and that techno...While I know our world is changing and that technology is putting information at the touch of a button and in some ways making life so much more convenient, I worry about the loss of interpersonal relationships. I know several young people who are getting all their college classes on line. There is much more to college than classes that they are missing. And I hope that those parents you saw are spending time with their children in other ways. While it might be nice for them to have dinner out without paying for a sitter, what about teahcing our children manners at the table and the art of conservation? Not to mention having mom and dad focus on you and be interested in how your day was! We had to ask our 27 year old not to text at the table. He bursts out laughing at jokes we are not privy to much less the aggrevation of having him at the table, but not really at the table. I am not keen on it. It bothers me though the idea of having a quiet dinner without a child fussing at the next table is appealing. Island Riderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04338707720934732800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-39074765715134885142013-02-17T09:53:37.487-05:002013-02-17T09:53:37.487-05:00Hi Aunty,
The thing is while the two year old can...Hi Aunty,<br />The thing is while the two year old can show you how she manipulates a device, she does not yet have the vocabulary or understanding to tell you what she is doing. This generation is the first to be raised equally in the real and virtual worlds. It is going to be fascinating to watch.<br /><br />One thing I am curious about is if the acceptance of the virtual world will make acceptance of the spiritual world easier for this generation.<br /><br />I understand Uncle, <br />I like to sweep more than I like to vacuum.fishyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15169980377922293950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5115084514040536840.post-41052561153617459432013-02-16T20:15:49.527-05:002013-02-16T20:15:49.527-05:00hmmmn, first, can ya lend me yore two year ole chi...hmmmn, first, can ya lend me yore two year ole chile? I needs a lesson or two on these smart thangs. <br /><br />What a profound set of questions ya raise, Fishy. I'se anxious to see what others think. Already I resent Face Book an' Instagram, but worry that it ain't no different than real ole folks resenting the phone. Uncle took a few years to adapt to faxes, long ago.Aunty Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13868780211706866610noreply@blogger.com