30 Days of Blogging: Day 6
This has been the hardest day so far for my challenge. Part of the problem with today is that it is a Saturday and I typically don’t do much on a weekend except getting caught up on the household activities that I have neglected during the week. This is also why I would be worried about becoming a full-time writer if that was the only job I had. Working and running the kids around to their activities during the week helps to keep me busy and give me things to think about. Today I mostly ran errands and did some yard work.
Managing the kids is also a big task, especially on a weekend when they don’t have any structured activities. They mainly just want to watch TV or play video games and I would like them to work on some other projects to engage their creativity. So I often have to come up with things for them to do just to keep them busy. When I think back to my own childhood I wonder if my parents ever thought about these things. I remember that most of my weekends as a child were spent in front of the TV or reading. I also had Legos and puzzles. My brothers and I would go outside on occasion and play with the other kids in the neighborhood, but on rainy days we were kind of stuck in the house. I can remember some fun snow days when we would play some board games.
But I don’t remember much interaction with my parents except for going shopping or running other errands with them. I know my brother would go fishing with my Dad down at the beach which was only a couple blocks from our house, but we were not allowed to go down there by ourselves. When we moved to Germany for a few years during my pre-teen years, we had a little more freedom to wander the fields and forests that surrounded our housing development and when we got back I was able to travel around more on my bike to see my friends who lived further away.
Living With Computers 