Just let the wolves raise them, it’ll be cheaper.

So I haven’t written in a while. Sorry. We took to the road and my grandmother passed away which changed me somehow. Although I couldn’t tell you how exactly. I think she took a piece of me with her, unfortunately not my heart, but my brain. Well, maybe she took both!?

Writing about the’ tech-free’ thing kinda bores me, although with all these kids its necessary, unless I decide suddenly that I’m not interested in raising healthy, well-adjusted, socialized individuals I guess I’ll keep at it. My youngest is having a birthday soon and in addition to the Wii, the PS2, the xbox360, the PSP, the iPod touch (3rd gen), a laptop and her cell phone she now wants a PS3…So I asked her, “Can you try to think of a gift that doesn’t force you to sit on your ass for hours at a time just using up all the good oxygen in the house?”  Okay, to be honest, I didn’t say it exactly like that but I wanted to. Seriously, someone needs re-market the Hula-hoop, or the jump rope or something! (I know adults everywhere are doing it, but I mean get kids to like it again. Why doesn’t Donald Trump make that a challenge on “The Apprentice?” - Is that show still on?) Not to be the kind of parent who ‘walked to school up hill both ways in the snow,’  but shit we used our effin hands as toys… remember that? ’Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack?’ 

Call me crazy but I don’t want to spend $300 just so I can be Super-Mom while you sit there endlessly with that blue glow reflecting off your face. I find it annoying to cook for you, do your laundry, and clean up after you while you sit on your ass all day moving only your thumbs; and to think that I thought ESPN was a horrible invention when I first got married! I seriously wonder what the difference would be between the unsocialized child raised by wolves and the unsocialized child who is a ‘gamer’ 18 hours a day. I mean they’d spend the same amount of time interacting with other human beings, they’d learn to communicate through a series of grunts, and let’s face it, their table manners would be; yes I’ll say it, NON-EXISTENT! Too bad Jane Goodall isn’t still around this might be right up her alley.

So let me weigh the options again, the end results being the same: I spend hundreds of dollars on another game console or I let the wolves raise you for free? Someone please pass me the ‘Easy Button.’