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Daniel Nest's avatar

We actually did lots of rather creative stuff back when I was growing up: Staging our own mini concerts for people in our building, making a puppet/shadow theater out of paper, using a spinner from a board game to create our own "Trivia" style talkshow where we wrote the questions for each other. I generally had a very social free time - we'd play in the yard with a dozen kids at a time after school, etc.

Some of that is lost a bit with the "instantly accessible anything" Internet access, I guess. Then again, my kids can sometimes also find inspiration online that they carry into the physical world, like finding color schemes for a drawing they're working on or watching YouTube for inspiration on experiments they can do. So it's not all bad.

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lunafaer (she/they)'s avatar

it’s all about how you use the information you can access. if the internet has made one dumber, they did it to themselves.

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