When kids dont have Ipads/videogames

"OkCars- 22k Crossroads" (okcars)
05/28/2014 at 17:55 • Filed to: None

DISCUSSION (13)

Crest > OkCars- 22k Crossroads
05/28/2014 at 17:59

Wow! Okay lets go burn all iPads and video games and encourage natural creativity! Yup i don't see a problem with that at all

Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' > OkCars- 22k Crossroads
05/28/2014 at 18:03

YES. I used to do this. Offroad stuff was my favorite. My friend had a strange affection toward derelict, rusty cars in fields, so he used to make the cars look like they were abandoned, putting grass over and in it, covering the bottom of the wheels with dirt so it looks like it has a flat tire, stuff like that.
Good times.

RazoE > Crest
05/28/2014 at 18:03

There's a message in here. But I have no service so I didn't receive it.

Svend > OkCars- 22k Crossroads
05/28/2014 at 18:15

Oh my god I used to do this as a kid. I was always playing with my cars on rugs and in the dirt. On rugs I used Lego to mark out the roads and in the dirt I would scrape a road into the soil and use bits of wood and cardboard to make buildings and bridges.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > OkCars- 22k Crossroads
05/28/2014 at 18:20

This was my favorite thing as a kid :D I wish the soil held up to my construction efforts as well as this is. Mine always just sorta collapsed

tromoly > Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan'
05/28/2014 at 18:35

Sandbox = Best Off-Road Track Ever.

T5Killer > Svend
05/28/2014 at 18:40

I used bamboo and kite string to make fences for my roads. My sister and I did a whole town of mud and bamboo buildings in our backyard.

The Transporter > OkCars- 22k Crossroads
05/28/2014 at 18:45

There was this one time in Iraq where I was driving along the bank of an irrigation ditch (well, there were a lot of times where I was driving along the bank of an irrigation ditch, like every day) beyond the outskirts of the town that surrounded Abu Ghraib prison and I remember seeing this small family living in an adobe hut. They had no possessions that could be said to have been made in a factory and the wife was using cow patties as cooking fuel. I might as well have been looking through a time portal at a scene from Mesopotamia in 2005 BC for what it was worth.

Sitting in my M1114 up-armored HMMWV, I had an earbud from my MP3 player in my ear. Next to me were a couple of radios that could transform my voice into a binary signal, encrypt it, and then use frequency hopping to hide the location of the radio. Underneath the radio mount was a bag containing my night vision goggles that allowed me to see things that couldn't be seen with the naked eye. On my M16A4 assault rifle was a holographic sight that used a solid state laser powered by watch batteries to accurately project a red dot showing exactly where my rifle rounds would go out to 300 meters. On the other side of the radio mount sat a Blue Force Tracker, a computer that showed not only our location, but the location of every friendly unit and known enemy location in the entire world. With the BFT I could send an IM through the small satellite transponder on the back of the HMMWV to a satellite in low Earth orbit and talk to any unit in the United States military. The contrast couldn't have been more stark.

In the trunk of the HMMWV sat a box half filled with small toys and various donated errata to be given to Iraqi children. We used to try to give these things out to the kids in the town but we stopped after a while. If you gave one thing to one kid they'd tell every other kid in the village and pretty soon we'd have a preadolescent mob on our hands begging us for anything. We never had anywhere near enough to give something to every kid. It didn't take us long to noticed that if we gave something to a younger kid but not an older kid, the older kid would beat up the younger kid and take the thing. We just stopped giving stuff out after we saw that and the box of toys started to collect dust in the trunk.

But here, out of eyesight of the town, I figured these kids wouldn't be punished for our generosity. The box of toys wasn't filled with anything that would warrant a passing glance of an American child. Crayons, coloring books, a couple of Matchbox cars, a pinwheel, a Barby doll, etc. I remember specifically the little girl running around the empty field next to the irrigation ditch, fascinated by the pinwheel whirling in the air, the Barby doll clutched firmly in her other hand. Never before or since have I seen children that happy.

Mochimaster > OkCars- 22k Crossroads
05/28/2014 at 19:12

*When Kids Can't Afford to have iPads or Videogames"

Just kidding. This is cool.

saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars > Crest
05/29/2014 at 00:48

For some reason, I feel like you're being sarcastic. But I don't understand why you would be.

thebigbossyboss > T5Killer
05/29/2014 at 08:04

Meanwhile, I used electrical tape and press board for my road maps. My building were just two d squares using the tape.

Crest > saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars
05/29/2014 at 11:33

Well to be honest i was being sarcastic. I understand kids should be made to develop their natural geniuses but kids these days have evolved past that point.

We no longer need to build something like that in sand when with technology, i've seen kids make even more incredible things. Look at it this way, all it took him was an idea, sand, water and lots of paper. If a kid 3D rendered this, it would be so much more incredible because that will mean he has not only mastered the technology to develop this, but has also found a way to use that to bring his creativity to life. It's an even greater feat.

Ask that little kid what he knows about 3D rendering…..i'm not sure he'll know much. My whole point is with technology, the bar has been set a lot higher than this. The threshold for knowledge and creativity of kids nowadays far exceeds that of kids in the past thanks to those evil iPads, video games and the interhoon. I'm not sure everyone will agree but that's just my 2 cents.

saabstory | fixes bikes, breaks cars > Crest
05/29/2014 at 11:39

I can see what you're saying but I think that you're partially wrong. Kids need to develop with technology as a supplement rather than a focus. If we just sat every toddler down with an iPad, we get a kid without any understanding of the natural world. Conversely, if you block a child from technology completely, they're not going to prepared for the real world. In any case, I see too many parents give their kids a smartphone as a way of avoiding interaction and I think that that's clearly wrong. HOORAY FOR THE MIDDLEGROUND!