Do Your Kids Still . . . . .?

[shakeylegs]

As a kid, I was always "in the process" of making or doing something. Cutting into golf balls for the rubber bands and juicy center, dismantling roller skates for the wheel sets to make "crazy cars", building forts and tree houses, or driving my own submarine courtesy of the box the new water heater came in. Every kid in the neigborhood was the same. We had boundless imagination and creativity into our teen years, AND, we watched TV.

My daughter's in college and too old for most of that stuff now, but I don't remember her creating many goofy projects of her own volition. Maybe she was more sophisticated. More over, I never see the creative result of some local junior genius. For those of you with kids, is the creative process still alive and if so, what are your kids creating?

 

[nerdgineer]

My kids are grown now, and they had different experiences than I did. As a kid, I took a lot of things apart because they were so interesting. As my kids were growing up, things were less interesting to take apart because their innards often consisted of a few chips on a PCB and air, which was less informative.

So, my son is an actual engineer and presumably he has the same tinkering gene I have, but it expressed itself in differently because the innards he dealt with were the innards of a computer, which he understands in depth.

My daughters are creative in the visual and artistic sense and don't have the hard engineering gene, although both are also pretty good with computers, web hosting, and all. I think computers gave them much easier means to express their various creative efforts, so that's a plus.