no netflix, no problem
Posted by jonathan - 25/03/08 at 07:03:47 am
Yesterday I popped over to netflix to peruse the fringes of their streaming service for any gems to distract me while emma was having the fits, only to find that their site was down. Apparently it was down for more than 12 hours and it reminded me of times when I was young and the power went out. I had that fleeting sense of anxiety wondering what I was going to do with the rest of my night, but then I made some tea, swaddled emma and curled us up to the tome I’m reading, David McCullough’s John Adams.
I wonder what kids will do these days when the power goes out. Seems like we have gone to an extreme where micro-boredom is considered a scourge, but we don’t allow for unstructured time where kids can develop the creativity to occupy themselves without electrical stimulation. If your interested in this subject go spend the couple bucks on a subscription to the week, and read the last word column for this week, “in defense of boredom”.
“In this era of incessant text messaging and two-minute sitcoms, idle moments are going extinct, says The Boston Globe’s Carolyn Y. Johnson. But what if being human means having time to think? “- The week
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