AD's off to Confession

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Started a new one.

Need to adhere to guidelines this time though.

Mine does Roblox, Minecraft not so much now but seriously into my hero academia she could talk about it for Scotland

My heart is filled with joy to discover mine aren’t the only children who like to recreate DEATH when playing. Wtf is that all about?

Single mum here, pretty normal, love our pets, don’t even own a chainsaw or river of lava.

When I did teacher training we did about drama and play with guns etc, was quite interesting 'should we let children play with guns?' the answer seemed to be yes- with discussion. I remember playing guns myself as a wee girl growing up in Scotland in the playground.

not real guns of course! twigs or whatever, role play

been reading about how to 'navigate' having children round after 4th July argh.

Yes, I read that thread and decided not to join in. DD isn’t distancing from her friends and we’ve already had some of her friends in the house. They had a lovely time, and she was a different child afterwards. Planning to make it a regular thing.

Used to be cowboys and indians. And cap guns!

Now pretend guns, knives, swords, bows and arrows etc are all banned so they go through the same phase - but online.

My theory is that they go through 7 million years of evolution compressed into their childhood. Then (mostly) take forward the values of their caretakers, translated to their own environment. It 'starts' with the startle reflex, and the grip that means they can hang on a clothes line, inherited from pre human times.

Infection rates where we are are virtually non-existent, and the kids’ mental health matters too.

Isn’t it interesting that we were all supposed to care so much about mental health last year, and now it turns out to be totally unimportant and everyone (including 9-year-olds, FGS) just has to grow up and get a grip?

Ha I started reading about navigation and closed it again rapidly. I'll do it by opening my front door mostly...

Can you imagine sending your DC to a dementor for a play date and having them try and keep them apart or something, sanitise them and stuff.

@ProfessorRadcliffeEmerson yes couldn't agree more. Going to take more than a chime bar 'brain break' twice a day to patch this fiasco up isn't it

My lot play Terraria, Minecraft, Fortnite (until they complete a season then drop it until the next one, at least they play with friends so it's sociable), Sea of Theives, SubNautica, CupHead, and of course, Minecraft.
All three play Minecraft but the biggest player in this house is DH, he uses it as a kind of creative therapy (bipolar, 9ften very depressed). He has spent hundreds of hours building really complex things, it's good for him and he doesn't watch much TV or do any other time consuming hobbies, so I don't mind. He now has people on SM he can share his achievements with and so there's a social aspect to it in a way, but he doesn't okay with others online.
I did get upset when one thing he built involved sacrificing hundreds of golems and the incidental unintentional deaths of quite a few cats, by drowning. I claimed this was unethical exploitation combined with animal cruelty and got quite upset. Thankfully he's moved on from that and is now building replica Victorian factories.

After sweltering at work for the last few days (PPE in a heatwave is very unpleasant), now I'm off work the wester is grey and grim, so no chance of a murderous beach trip for me. I was so hot in my uniform yesterday (thick polyester tunic under a plastic apron) that I actually had sweat running down me, it was grim.

Managed to find some acceptable sets of scrubs among the mountains of kindly donated handmade items that were given to us months ago and never got used. Changed into them and felt so much better that I have claimed them as my summer uniform. Mine are plain navy, same as my uniform, but the rest have been made from any and all fabric and some are quite shocking (clearly made from old curtains and duvet covers), with matching bonnet hat things (imagine old fashioned swimming ladies) and we all had quite a giggle going through the bags. Being a GP surgery, we don't have much use for then but we kept them in case we did need to change clothes urgently. It was very kind of the sewing helpers and made them feel useful during the scarier time of the pandemic, but I'm not sure what we're going to do with them all. Pj's perhaps?

www.teachwire.net/news/bang-bang-should-weapon-play-be-encouraged-in-early-years

Nursery teacher on gun play

@Orangeblossom78

When I did teacher training we did about drama and play with guns etc, was quite interesting 'should we let children play with guns?' the answer seemed to be yes- with discussion. I remember playing guns myself as a wee girl growing up in Scotland in the playground.

Good job I was always "whatever" about it as guns are one of DS's interests. How he has assimilated so much information I don't know, I think it's mainly from dry war documentaries on Smithsonian

And how do trees grow so many gun-shaped sticks.
Our front door step is nicknamed the armoury because that's where the sticks/ weapons are stashed and selected for each walk. Last night DS2 found and added a scythe to the collection.

The girls two doors down have been coming inside for a couple of weeks now. No one has died.

Don't tell thevd3mentors but we are planning a long drive to a beach on Tuesday. We are Bedfordshire so any beach is a long drive. Something nice to look forward to.

bogroll thank you for the smithsonion tip - I think mine would like that.

On the subject of kids gaming - I play a MMORPG (think World of Warcraft, but not). I was somewhat alarmed to be messaged online the other evening by another player who claimed to be 7

The game content is fine for a child, it’s an old game so no gory graphics, and the mods don’t allow swearing, and it’s impossible to copy and paste into the chat windows so it would be difficult to post a dodgy link - but 7?! Way too young to be unsupervised on there. If DS is interested when he’s older we’ll make him a toon but we’ll have the passwords and it will be gaming and grouping with Mum and Dad present only until he’s a lot older. I doubt he’ll want to play it for long as it’s already a 20 year old game now, and he’ll doubtless be into things with better graphics... Will be trying to steer him towards Minecraft and puzzle games, things that are creative and involve some thought. He can do the mindless blasting and things later on. He does actually have a PS game all of his own - Cars 3 - but at the moment Daddy drives while DS yells ‘push the buttons Daddy! Go into the water!’

Do you think the secondaries will open after the summer full time or just primary?

Our secondary is on about doing more online lessons and stuff, having students in for sessions like the yr 10s...but not sure why as they only have two weeks until the summer (they finish a week before most schools). It seems they are focusing on online stuff quite a bit considering that should be over in a short time?

DS2's class is planning a meet up in the park at the end of term (and hoping that social distancing is less of an issue so it doesn't have to be done in shifts).

I should try and see if next door want classmate to come round. I've seen less of them in recent weeks since a furlough ended and nursery restarted, so classmate is getting 1:1 without little sibling cramping his style and they're in the garden less.

My problem is that I seem to be peripheral to everyone. I didn't bond at the school nursery, I don't have local family. We mainly network at formal groups and have never found ourselves in a network of play dates with either DC, and I don't really know how to get a foothold in and get beyond oppotunistic small talk until better company arrives. Plus I've been cagey about encountering real life dementors and there's been plenty that have held their children back from school.

@Orangeblossom78

Can you imagine sending your DC to a dementor for a play date and having them try and keep them apart or something, sanitise them and stuff.

This has actually kind of happened to DS.

He has two best friends,one set of dps very much like us, risk assess and act accordingly. They've had loads of outdoor playdates.

The other wont let ds or any other child within 2m of them or their children. They have now started back at school but are oblivious that each bubble dont socially distance within that bubble. I dread them finding out as they would take the kids out and they look so happy.

We met them once for a playdate and the DPs just kept shouting "2m!!!" Anytime anyone got close. It was zero fun.

My DD is 12 and her cousins are 11 and 9, both girls. When we saw them last week the three of them spent quite a lot of the day chasing each other around with plastic guns.

DDs had a friend over and been to her house, both her mum and I agree their mental health is more important than roolz right now.

@Spudlet

On the subject of kids gaming - I play a MMORPG (think World of Warcraft, but not). I was somewhat alarmed to be messaged online the other evening by another player who claimed to be 7

The game content is fine for a child, it’s an old game so no gory graphics, and the mods don’t allow swearing, and it’s impossible to copy and paste into the chat windows so it would be difficult to post a dodgy link - but 7?! Way too young to be unsupervised on there. If DS is interested when he’s older we’ll make him a toon but we’ll have the passwords and it will be gaming and grouping with Mum and Dad present only until he’s a lot older. I doubt he’ll want to play it for long as it’s already a 20 year old game now, and he’ll doubtless be into things with better graphics... Will be trying to steer him towards Minecraft and puzzle games, things that are creative and involve some thought. He can do the mindless blasting and things later on. He does actually have a PS game all of his own - Cars 3 - but at the moment Daddy drives while DS yells ‘push the buttons Daddy! Go into the water!’

We still play Ages of Empire from the CD rom. Love that game. Again, DS1 is a tad too interested in the statistics of different empires, their techs and advantages over other empires. Personally, I play for escapism

@BogRoll Wow, Age of Empires! That’s a blast from the past - I used to love that game! I wish my laptop had a CD-ROM drive, I’d be on eBay seeking a copy out...

Thankfully mine are a bit old for playdates and the playwark so do not have to deal with dementory parents.