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I noticed this for my grade school teachers, but I think it’s true for a lot of parents, as well… People are really shit at explaining things to other people.
Parents and teachers both just tell children to do things, but rarely explain why. Now that I think about it, they probably don’t know why themselves.
But in this case, going outside is good. The exposure to sunlight produces vitamin D, and helps with your mood and sleep cycle. Children that go outside can meet other children and it helps them build social skills.
As a parent, sometimes I do make my kids do things “just because”; mainly just because they need to learn to do things themselves, and while they can technically do them, they don’t do them with much quality. That quality comes with experience. Experience is earned by doing.
Now, here’s the rub: nothing I tell my kids to do — that they especially don’t want to do — will motivate them to do it, unless it has a consequence attached (and sometimes not even then). Another reason I don’t always explain things in detail is because they won’t listen. Their first reaction is always, “I know”, and they go off and half-ass it and call it done.
Right or wrong, I’m human too. And it can be tiring (even exhausting depending in the day) to have to keep after them explaining the same shit over and over again, only for them to both ignore me and get mad at me for nagging them.
~So yeah, go outside and do something; anything. I need some peace.~
I would actually love to make a snowman this year. Too bad it hasn’t snowed significantly enough for me to do so for several years. Looks like it’s going to be a wet Christmas yet again.
Then next year, you’ll hopefully get to rebuild your pal and sacrifice his icy flesh to Helios in the same profane ritual! Crop yield bonus, baby. Whew!
