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Has this parent never even taken their kid to play in a sandbox before?
I mean, yeah…
I grew up on a farm, if kids got too hype, they got chores.
If you keep a husky puppy locked up in an apartment all day, it’s gonna act out and destroy shit and be difficult.
Same thing with a human kid.
You gotta let them burn that energy kut, giving them an iPad isn’t going to make them tired.
Considering how humans evolved we’re not that different from huskies. We’re supposed to be walking 20 miles a day.
Crazy thing is, walking 20 miles a day isn’t burning that many calories. By the end of the day, if it is flat ground and you’re used to it, 20 miles isn’t even enough to be sore or tired…
… Imagine what early human feet looked like.
Similar to ours just not crammed into shoes with tiny toe boxes. If you look at a baby’s foot their toes are spread super wide which is how human feet naturally are, but most shoes cream your toes causing you to develop narrowed feet over time.
I started wearing barefoot shoes two years ago and my back no longer hurts when I walk, and I can walk 10+ miles now without my feet killing me. It took a few months to get used to but once my feet adjusted they got much stronger. Now normal shoes are painful to wear and difficult to balance in because I’ve gotten used to being planted firmly to the ground.
The difference being you’re still wearing shoes.
Let me present to you feet that use no shoes.
giving them an iPad isn’t going to make them tired.
Try putting it in nightmode to eliminate the blue light. /s
A 6’x3’ hole?
Little dude is chill now because he’s dug your fucking grave, man!
Talk about cathartic. Everytime he feels like you’re a dick to him, all he’s gotta do is think of that hole waiting to swallow your body.
And he’s got a blunt instrument with a handle to fix the size difference, that he’s getting real good at wielding.
Hand him the shovel if you want, but don’t turn your back.
Humans don’t respond well to having nothing to do.
I respond pretty damn well to that
for a week or two yes, but once the novelty of just chilling runs out you start feeling like shit
People who need work always assume everyone else is like them, and anyone who says otherwise is a liar or defective person. Like morning people, or sports people.
I would happily spend the rest of my life not working.
I’m pretty sure he’s talking about doing literally nothing, as opposed to not working.
I’m pretty sure no one at all was talking about literally doing nothing, because what a stupid scenario to even consider
Humans don’t respond well to having nothing to do.
but if you literally had nothing to do in your life, you would grow bored, and start doing something the human condition is to create things.
Why do you think we industrialized?
I’m pretty sure no one at all was talking about literally doing nothing, because what a stupid scenario to even consider
You’ve made the exact same reply three different times.
Yeah because I got the same reply 3 different times.
yeah see im confused because i thought that’s what we were already talking about, but then people started talking about it again like it wasn’t already understood.
I did not pick up on it.
No, you guys were right. I overestimated OP, couldn’t imagine him possibly making such an inane statement. But yeah, he was literally saying that people don’t like sitting and doing absolutely nothing.
But presumably you don’t just stare at the wall. “Humans need something to do” is mainly bound to not just sitting around twiddling your thumbs. It’s the reason we get bored, the brain is annoyed at not having anything to focus on.
It doesn’t have to be literal work, just something you find engaging, be it going for a run, tending to houseplants, or completing your entire video game backlog.
And of course there is variation between humans. Some people cope well with having little to do, others always need to do something they find productive.
I’m pretty sure no one at all was talking about literally doing nothing, because what a stupid scenario to even consider
That is exactly what I said, and exactly what I meant. People need something to do.
Well. In that case, what a stupid and pointless thing to say.
I love to dig. My dad used to get mad at me for failing classes in school, which happened often. He’d say, “Do you wanna go dig ditches for a living?!”
Now I’m a software developer and yeah I like it. It shuts my brain off. I wish I could do it part time or even just as an exercise but I live in a suburb and any time you want to dig you have to make a phone call and wait for someone to come out
Have you considered calling the locating service, get them to mark the entire yard, and then taking pictures so you know areas are okay to dig in going forward? I’ve been considering doing that for my yard just so I know where I can safely landscape.
This, but it’s my ADHDAF ass stacking firewood with my dad. Eventually, when I was old enough, I even got to use the splitter and the sledgehammer. Now I’m a grown ass man and Pittsburgh is technically subtropical so he doesn’t heat the house with wood anymore, but in years of studying I’ve never found a more effective meditation than 3 hours of splitting and stacking firewood.
Guessing it’s just the exercise? I feel more in control of my emotions after a nice long walk.
Human beings crave agency and usefulness, even the little humans and even in little ways.
Hell yeah! I did this kind of thing a lot with my kids. Give them a backpack, a flip phone, lunch and drinks and tell them to go explore a hill visible from the house.
So homeboy read holes right? Just needs to turn over a boat and hide peaches.
Turns out exercise and purpose is good for kids. Breathing through disappointment is a buddhist technique, a letting go technique. But letting go is only half of mental health. The other half is going after things.
Humans are not evolved to be sedentary. We need to be going out and about to be stimulated, not just physically but also mentally.
Never underestimate the catharsis of digging a hole.
Unless you live on hardpan. Fuck hardpan.
Who was that guy that discovered something very important in physics, and he said the elves told him about it? The elves that were in the massive holes/caves he would dig in his back property, as his outlet. I forget how large his friends said the tunnels were, but he clearly spent a lot of time digging tunnels.
Edit: Seymour Cray, of the Cray supercomputer. AKA The Father of Supercomputing.
John Rollwagen, a colleague for many years, tells the story of a French scientist who visited Cray’s home in Chippewa Falls. Asked what were the secrets of his success, Cray said “Well, we have elves here, and they help me”. Cray subsequently showed his visitor a tunnel he had built under his house, explaining that when he reached an impasse in his computer design, he would retire to the tunnel to dig. “While I’m digging in the tunnel, the elves will often come to me with solutions to my problem”, he said.
Cray has been called solitary, uncommunicative, secretive, and difficult to get on with. Frank Sumner, Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Manchester, met Cray on several occasions and refutes suggestions that he was a prickly character: “He was a very friendly man, and perhaps the greatest all-round computer scientist ever”, says Sumner.
I think Seymour Cray may have had a gas leak in his basement.
Or a big stash of DMT
This passage from Wikipedia is infinitely funny to me:
DMT has a rapid onset, intense effects, and a relatively short duration of action. For those reasons, DMT was known as the “businessman’s trip” during the 1960s in the United States, as a user could access the full depth of a psychedelic experience in considerably less time than with other substances such as LSD or psilocybin mushrooms.
“Have you always wanted to have a transcendent psychedelic experience but just could never fit it in to your busy schedule? Now you can, with DMT™! Ask your dealer about it today!”
Well yeah, acid is your whole day. You’ve gotta plan that shit. It’s a real Saturday drug.
I live in Houston. Everything is clay. That shit gets stuck to your shovel and does not come off.
That being said, we had some woods behind our house and we would play out there all the time. Digging, pellet guns, machetes to chop down trees and make forts.
Kid found his calling: to become a Dwarf.
ROCK AND STONE! ⛏️
尺ㄖ匚Ҝ 卂几ᗪ 丂ㄒㄖ几乇! 🐞
I was gonna say geologist.
I’m surprised no one’s said archeologist.
I guess it’s unrealistic even as a dream job these days.
I’ve worked with two archaeologists. They’re more employable than you think. Both of them were at drilling sites I was working. Not that kind of drilling, we often dig small (< 6 inches in diameter) holes in the ground to see what’s going on in the subsurface for a variety of reasons. In this case both were there for planned underground utilities (water and sewer).
Anyway we were legally required to have an archaeologist at these two sites just in case we encountered artefactsand they sifted through the top 10 feet of our hole. It’s fairly common in some areas and the archaeologists worked for private consulting firms.
Dad just learned about autism
Holes, a wildly popular movie about the very real problem of exploitative kids camps. And yet they persist…
The children yearn for the mines.
Trees and grass and other green things around you in the garden have a positive psychological effect. The feeling of having done something visible has a positive psychological effect. Getting a physical workout has a positive psychological effect.
I know yours is a humorous comment, but a child digging in a garden has nothing to do with them yearning to be an early-capitalism style child laborer.
Jesus dude, go touch some grass.
We all know it’s bad for children to work in mines, its a joke.
Hello Jesus dude. That’s kinda what I said, no?
Don’t let them bring you down. From where I’m standing, they’re the killjoy.
Yeah, but you sucked all the fun out of a joke that no one was confused about in the first place.
We know…
