Quote:Ozy, thanks for the bit of info about the loaf of bread thing! That is what has been missing in my parenting skills....or lack thereof. I must now steel my resolve to see that the 'art of the sling' lives on undying in my progeny! Skinny though they may become.........they have a ways to go though, the chubby little hooligans, too much sedentary video gamery afoot. Must.....
grunt
......be.......
hrmmphh
.....strong!
You're welcome, TechStuff.
I know what you mean about the sedentary video game thing. I don't have any kids, but I see it all the time. It would shake the faith in ritalin of anyone who believes in "Attention-Deficit Disorder" to see how long today's kids can concentrate on and stay glued to their video games.
We had TV when I was little, and we watched a good deal of it, but we played outside a lot too, and walked and ran and bicycled all over, climbed and fell out of trees, and got chased by bulls and mean dogs, and generally got into all kinds of mischief, sort of like in an old "Little Rascals" episode.
I for one started playing with a homemade *elastic* slingshot like Dennis the Menace at an early age. I think I was about 14 when I made my first David-and-Goliath sling out of some leather boot laces and the "tongue" cut out of an old boot. I didn't achieve much accuracy with it (and in fact I broke a few things I wasn't aiming at), but I sure could cast a rock pretty far, and had a lot of fun with it.
Very few of us were overweight then. I myself was always a little *too* thin until my late-thirties, when I suddenly started to get a little bit of middle-age spread around the waistline. I think I could work that off in a short time if only I lived in a place where I could get much outdoor exercise, but I don't anymore.
Maybe someday ... )
Oz