Sometimes when my kids get together with friends or cousins, they can turn a little green seeing those friends' Nintendo DSes. Fortunately, that rarely translates into any whining over their lot in life. Instead, it manifests itself in this form:
A little creativity, some cardboard, paper, glue, and markers, and viola! A DS to play!
Want more than one game? Just make another! Gracie has one for a Care Bear game, another for Littlest Pet Shop, and a third with her own creation, the Bunny Hop game. Shayne has a Bakugan Brawlers game, and another for his invented game, King of the Branch. (So named and designed after an actual "game" that toucan birds play.)
Some may think this picture of my deprived kids and their paper toys is a bit sad, but I say a little technological deprivation is good for the imagination.
Then again, instead of pretending to play their games, they could really just be imagining what their lives would be like with Daddy Warbucks as a parent instead of me. Right, Jen?
Now, off to see what I can do to convince Brendon that I need an iphone.
10 comments:
That's awesome! Reminds me of when Rach made her own laptop computer out of a cardboard box. Love imagination at work!
Very cute! Love the imagination at work.
I am ready to throw the DSes out the window!
That's funny. My kids do the same thing with cell phones and laptops.
I did initially think that was sad, but then I do hate seeing kids playing those things. Also, I love Grace's stripes and plaid.
Before you get an iPhone - talk to me?! Really!!! Have a favor to ask.
Your children are so creative! Good for them for making their own entertainment!
My kids have been begging for a DS forever. We are not giving in and it's great to see other parents who are not either. You are my shero!!! HA!
love it. My brothers made their own action figures out of crumpled up pieces of paper and were really good at it. Of course, now that they're financially independent, they each own a Wii :)
DSes are great fun for the kids, BUT I agree a little deprivation is just fine and needed! We have some serious limits on how long and when they can play our DS. I love the creativity!
Skip the DS and go straight to the iPod Touch. That way you can load them up with math games, letter tracers and eBooks. You buy the app's once and can put them on all your iDevices- in fact most are free. It ends up being a fraction of the cost of a DS. Okay... so maybe that misses the whole point of your post....
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