The ICE age is the age our children are born into ! Now, that’s a fact. Technology is pacing and so are they with them. Manoeuvring around any gadget is their forte and quickly figuring out information from these devices is something that they love! Notice how readily they volunteer to pull out information and how quickly they get the know how about any subject under the moon!
In this superhighway that their lives are, digital hobbies are almost a done thing. Kindles are everywhere ( if this really rekindles their reading habits would be great though!) then, checking live scores, streaming live music, complete and more knowledge about new cool stuff on YouTube, and other such digital and easy formatted tools are engaging their free hours. There is a request to go over to a friends place to PLAY PLAY with the X boxes, PlayStations etc. There is just NO ESCAPE!
It’s nice if we can somehow manage to squeeze in some hands-on hobbies in their digitalised minds. That’s something that they ought to DO DO. Learning to play a musical instrument is one such joyous hobby which my son pursues. It’s an absolute delight to hear those keys come alive with those finger movements! Another immensely creative hobby is one that starts with most kids with those coloured and shaped blocks . With some kids, like my little one, it carries on in the form of LEGO and it’s something that engages her mind for hours on end. It’s absolutely wonderful to see the creativity coming out in different forms and shapes and the imagination growing with it! Any physical sport / activity pursued by them today will always be there for them tomorrow.
Going forward , along with their digital pursuits, lets also blend in some good old pastimes like reading from touch and feel books, playing outdoors, exploratory trips with nature, unstructured free play at home, creative usage of redundant supplies , enough and more usage of art supplies and stationary and other such rather simple self created innovative hobbies in their schedules!
Digital world is already THEIR world, still, in small measures if we can reminisce our growing up years with them,we would feel wonderful!
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