• givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    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.

  • Crackhappy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    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.

  • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.eeEnglish
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    7 months ago

    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.

      • shneancy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        7 months ago

        for a week or two yes, but once the novelty of just chilling runs out you start feeling like shit

        • Cryophilia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          7 months ago

          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.

    • Starb3an@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      7 months ago

      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.

    • Syn_Attck@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      7 months ago

      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.