[WWI] " Do kids still build models........?

[Jim Landon]

<<Is this the sort of well rounded active busy lives
in which the kids get driven around by their parents to football on
Monday, dance group on Tuesday,  International friends of the whale
group on Wednesday, (and so on through to Sunday) so that neither they
nor their parents need to actually use their own imaginations to fill
in time together or alone?>>

Not even close.

Jim

From: bristolf2b at hotmail.com
To: wwi at wwi-models.org
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:27:43 +1000
Subject: Re: [WWI] " Do kids still build models........?








Jim says

 

>They have very full well-rounded active busy lives so I hesitate to insist that they build models.

 

Is this the sort of well rounded active busy lives in which the kids get driven around by their parents to football on Monday, dance group on Tuesday,  International friends of the whale group on Wednesday, (and so on through to Sunday) so that neither they nor their parents need to actually use their own imaginations to fill in time together or alone?

 

Perhaps not, though I see it every day.


>When I was a kid in the late 1940's and early 1950's I did NOT have a full well-rounded active 

>busy life so building models was my kind of activity. 

 

I think *you* were the one with the well rounded life. I fear for a generation which has never had to make their *own* fun.

 

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