Getting your kids disconnected from their electronics. It can be a bit painful at first. It takes them a while to come to their senses and realize that life was worth living even before graphics cards were invented. Even with our ‘Modern Amish’ sensibilities, my kids are no strangers to Facebook and computer games. Being deprived of all that artificial visual stimulation, for two or three days together, can stun them as surely as a baseball to the head. But then, ever so slowly, they come around.
My Little Urchin gets pretty creative and shows signs of becoming a fine cottager himself one day. He split wood and whittled pegs to make these trivets for us recently.
- That can of Stella appears to have gone to Cottager’s head.