Here you will find scattered pictures from my point and shoot camera, random thoughts from my little world, treasured memories of days gone by, hopeful dreams of the days yet to come, and a bunch of ideas - because I've always got ideas!
Thursday, July 11, 2013
Summer Fun
One's binky can NEVER be too clean.
While the oldest three played in the pool, Feintsje played with the hose.
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Hi Judy, do you ever wonder how most of todays kids will learn how to do basic things, like washing up? Your grandchildren learn by watching and then play-doing it themselves, like you and I did. Wanting to do it when we were too small, being allowed to do it anyway and when we were old enough mostly bothered with doing it, but, he, we learned, so do yours. But how many kids will only know - if so, we may wish - to pack a dishwasher and unload it, will nit know how to cook water without electricity, or make coffee with boiling water and a filter. Keep teaching them in play and they will, at least at thtat point, be happy grown-ups one day. Not knowing how and not being able to figure out, how to make do, without the help on internet seems to be such a waste, not knowing how to securely sew on a button or hem too long trousers seems to me like a big handicap. Not owning a hammer or a screwdriver was what my mother missed dearly in the small room in the oldpeoples home so much, having to ask the handyman to hammer a nail two mm.s deeper into the wall was to her the reality of being old and living in a home. Let us cherish the things we have and sometimes have to do, as long as we can do them, my FIL missed being able to walk to the fishshop, buying a maatjesharing (Dutch herring), but becauseit was due to a physical handicap he could accept it as part of being old. I wonder if he ever enjoyed using a hammer, I think he hated it. DM
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Hi Judy, do you ever wonder how most of todays kids will learn how to do basic things, like washing up? Your grandchildren learn by watching and then play-doing it themselves, like you and I did. Wanting to do it when we were too small, being allowed to do it anyway and when we were old enough mostly bothered with doing it, but, he, we learned, so do yours. But how many kids will only know - if so, we may wish - to pack a dishwasher and unload it, will nit know how to cook water without electricity, or make coffee with boiling water and a filter. Keep teaching them in play and they will, at least at thtat point, be happy grown-ups one day. Not knowing how and not being able to figure out, how to make do, without the help on internet seems to be such a waste, not knowing how to securely sew on a button or hem too long trousers seems to me like a big handicap. Not owning a hammer or a screwdriver was what my mother missed dearly in the small room in the oldpeoples home so much, having to ask the handyman to hammer a nail two mm.s deeper into the wall was to her the reality of being old and living in a home. Let us cherish the things we have and sometimes have to do, as long as we can do them, my FIL missed being able to walk to the fishshop, buying a maatjesharing (Dutch herring), but becauseit was due to a physical handicap he could accept it as part of being old. I wonder if he ever enjoyed using a hammer, I think he hated it. DM
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