Blackouts in other times.
By marguicha
@marguicha (230350)
Chile
February 3, 2020 7:51am CST
I was answering a post about a blackout from my friend @cacay and I remembered long ago times when there were blackouts often where I lived.
My parents had a small oil lantern and my mother placed it in the middle of the dining room table. We all sat around the table and my mother started to recite poems. She knew many and even now, sometimes I close my eyes and remember those old poems.
It seems that now children don´t learn anything by heart, not even how much is 2 by 2. There are machines that do it. Pity! They are lost arts.
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@VivaLaDani13 (60812)
• Perth, Australia
3 Feb 20
@marguicha Those are some wonderful memories to look back on. I know I would enjoy something like that. I actually LOVE when there are blackouts because it gives people time away from their TV's, laptops, phones, iPads etc etc.
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
3 Feb 20
Then people talked to each other. It has become a lost art.
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
3 Feb 20
@VivaLaDani13 It is easy for parents to buy tablets instead of spending time with the children. I remember endless Scrabble games with my parents too.
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@VivaLaDani13 (60812)
• Perth, Australia
3 Feb 20
@marguicha I completely agree with you. It's sad actually.
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
3 Feb 20
@simone10 I have tried to go on with the relation with my children.
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@simone10 (54180)
• Louisville, Kentucky
3 Feb 20
@marguicha I can certainly understand. I miss things we did as a family when I was a child.
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
3 Feb 20
Still, there should be moments of play besides tablets and the like. I am sure that more and more children have attention disorders because they don´t run and play the way we used to do.
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
3 Feb 20
And so much! Because our children not only lose the poems but bonding time.
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
3 Feb 20
@just4him And we all need that at one time or the other.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
3 Feb 20
@marguicha Yes, they do. Bonding is so important but they don't realize it.
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@LindaOHio (222310)
• United States
3 Feb 20
You're right about that. I"m surprised there is any creativity left on this earth.
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
3 Feb 20
When I remember those poems and others I learned later in other languages, I ask myself in sorrow how long will it take before nobody knows or cares for them.
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
3 Feb 20
@LindaOHio Yes. And yet, we could all help to teach our children some poems.
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
3 Feb 20
Kids are losing the ability to think and reason for themselves.
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
3 Feb 20
Probably. It is not their fault. Their peers don´t open those roads for them.
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