Re: Frog Stone Sunday
Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2025 12:05 pm
Good morning, all. Thank you for starting us off, Kittkatt. I had never heard of Frog Stone, so was interested to learn.
I take it as a very good sign that the seniors are telling you that they could hear and understand your reading. Also, it looks like your Parish lunch is well on track to be a success.
You are knocking your Ta Das out of the park, trissie. You must be looking forward to getting the first of your dkids home from camp. Any chance of recruiting them to help you around the house or yard?
Hi, L.Ann.
Lauralind, the computer game is a tough one. Modern social platforms and the big games are actually structured to keep users engaged, to make it hard to walk away from it. I can even see it in a non-competitive game that I have played for years. Every update seems to introduce another thing to make you feel that you will be missing out if you don't stay and deal with that. If your ds is more vulnerable to that than the average, it will make it all the harder to break away. If it has recognizable levels or quests, can you work out with your ds that at the end of one, he goes out and does something in nature like weeding in the greenhouse for X amount of time, or watering the flowers? To refocus his mind, as it were. If it's something that is constantly drawing him in, then would working with alarms work? Two hours on the game and then an hour outside?
For his long term goals, does he know what he wants to do for a living? Is he willing to think about that and plan for it? If so, you can work with him to work out the steps required to get there, and then break it down to attainable goals. That gives him a starting point. Or maybe see if he would agree to spend one day/week helping Grandpa? That would give him the experience of being competent and having a contribution to make to society, as the cooking did.
If he is withdrawing into the game to avoid dealing with the future because between fires and floods from global warming, and the threats to our economy that are not under our control, that's a whole different thing.
Take all of this with a grain of salt, as I have never had children so I'm guessing my way through it all.
Sunday
Cleaned up after Germane
Put on pot of coffee
Cleaned up after Germane
Put on pot of rice
Cleaned up after Germane
I take it as a very good sign that the seniors are telling you that they could hear and understand your reading. Also, it looks like your Parish lunch is well on track to be a success.
You are knocking your Ta Das out of the park, trissie. You must be looking forward to getting the first of your dkids home from camp. Any chance of recruiting them to help you around the house or yard?
Hi, L.Ann.
Lauralind, the computer game is a tough one. Modern social platforms and the big games are actually structured to keep users engaged, to make it hard to walk away from it. I can even see it in a non-competitive game that I have played for years. Every update seems to introduce another thing to make you feel that you will be missing out if you don't stay and deal with that. If your ds is more vulnerable to that than the average, it will make it all the harder to break away. If it has recognizable levels or quests, can you work out with your ds that at the end of one, he goes out and does something in nature like weeding in the greenhouse for X amount of time, or watering the flowers? To refocus his mind, as it were. If it's something that is constantly drawing him in, then would working with alarms work? Two hours on the game and then an hour outside?
For his long term goals, does he know what he wants to do for a living? Is he willing to think about that and plan for it? If so, you can work with him to work out the steps required to get there, and then break it down to attainable goals. That gives him a starting point. Or maybe see if he would agree to spend one day/week helping Grandpa? That would give him the experience of being competent and having a contribution to make to society, as the cooking did.
If he is withdrawing into the game to avoid dealing with the future because between fires and floods from global warming, and the threats to our economy that are not under our control, that's a whole different thing.
Take all of this with a grain of salt, as I have never had children so I'm guessing my way through it all.
Sunday
Cleaned up after Germane
Put on pot of coffee
Cleaned up after Germane
Put on pot of rice
Cleaned up after Germane
Jude