Anonymous
02/23/2024 19:24
Subject: Any other Luddites here ?
How old are your kids. It gets harder and harder to be this off the grid as they get older.
Anonymous
02/20/2024 12:09
Subject: Any other Luddites here ?
Anonymous wrote:How old are your kids?
More importantly, how often are they bullied?
Anonymous
02/20/2024 12:08
Subject: Any other Luddites here ?
Yes but do you have any Grey Poupon?
Anonymous
02/20/2024 12:05
Subject: Any other Luddites here ?
Troll post. You only listen to WETA? seriously. do you want a pat on the back?
Anonymous
02/19/2024 18:58
Subject: Any other Luddites here ?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We read the printed newspaper daily. We do not do TV. We listen to the radio, mostly WETA. We have books all over our house and reading books is the main activity here.
“Luddite” is another way to say “a person who is not adept with new technology”. I guess my grandma is a Luddite too.
That is the meaning. I think OP meant a different word.
"What does the word Luddite mean today?
Modern usage
Nowadays, the term "Luddite" often is used to describe someone who is opposed or resistant to new technologies."
Historically, Luddite meant people who were so opposed to new (industrial) technologies they when around destroying them. The name they used was Ned Ludd, hence Luddite.
Anonymous
02/19/2024 16:49
Subject: Any other Luddites here ?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We read the printed newspaper daily. We do not do TV. We listen to the radio, mostly WETA. We have books all over our house and reading books is the main activity here.
“Luddite” is another way to say “a person who is not adept with new technology”. I guess my grandma is a Luddite too.
That is the meaning. I think OP meant a different word.
"What does the word Luddite mean today?
Modern usage
Nowadays, the term "Luddite" often is used to describe someone who is opposed or resistant to new technologies."
Anonymous
02/19/2024 16:47
Subject: Any other Luddites here ?
My parents were not TV-watchers and we were allowed 1 hour per day. My sister loves all TV, all the time. I have no interest in movies or TV. I read a lot. I think the way my parents did it worked well. We read a ton of books, but weren’t totally oblivious to cultural conversations around shows and movies.
Anonymous
02/19/2024 00:25
Subject: Re:Any other Luddites here ?
Anonymous wrote:If it were up to me we would not have any tvs in our house. I had a phone for a few years but never used it so I had it turned off. Don't miss it.
I don't like labels. I really don't like people to be honest.
What?
Anonymous
02/18/2024 23:48
Subject: Any other Luddites here ?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We have two kids, 4 and 1. We don’t have a TV and our kids generally don’t interact with screens at all except for FaceTime. One thing I’ve noticed is that the kids are forced to do more helping out when there isn’t a screen option. Like, I remember as a kid watching TV while my mom cooked dinner every night. Our kids can play by themselves while we cook but if they get bored of that the other option is helping us, so my daughter has learned how to do a lot on the kitchen. There’s just more time for other better things to do and more incentive to do them when screens aren’t an easy go-to option.
People like OP and you (and me) will get trashed by other posters who let their kids have free rein of devices so the adults can indulge their own screen addictions. And no, snatching a few min of DCUM while the kids are playing independently or after they go to bed doesn’t make me a hypocrite. When screentime is always an option for kids, they lose their desire to do anything else.
Yes it does. And I also bet it’s way more than the few minutes you pretending it is.
Anonymous
02/18/2024 23:45
Subject: Re:Any other Luddites here ?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why the hell are you spending time posting on this site? You sound like a wannabe Luddite.
HAHA! Good point! Let me virtue signal about how great I am . . . but I'm posting it on this trashy site.
Trashy site yet here you are.
PP is not here fishing for compliments like OP though.
Anonymous
02/18/2024 23:42
Subject: Any other Luddites here ?
Anonymous wrote:We have two kids, 4 and 1. We don’t have a TV and our kids generally don’t interact with screens at all except for FaceTime. One thing I’ve noticed is that the kids are forced to do more helping out when there isn’t a screen option. Like, I remember as a kid watching TV while my mom cooked dinner every night. Our kids can play by themselves while we cook but if they get bored of that the other option is helping us, so my daughter has learned how to do a lot on the kitchen. There’s just more time for other better things to do and more incentive to do them when screens aren’t an easy go-to option.
People like OP and you (and me) will get trashed by other posters who let their kids have free rein of devices so the adults can indulge their own screen addictions. And no, snatching a few min of DCUM while the kids are playing independently or after they go to bed doesn’t make me a hypocrite. When screentime is always an option for kids, they lose their desire to do anything else.
Anonymous
02/18/2024 23:38
Subject: Re:Any other Luddites here ?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why the hell are you spending time posting on this site? You sound like a wannabe Luddite.
HAHA! Good point! Let me virtue signal about how great I am . . . but I'm posting it on this trashy site.
Trashy site yet here you are.
Anonymous
02/18/2024 23:37
Subject: Any other Luddites here ?
Anonymous wrote:But you’re on DCUM?
THIS.
Anonymous
02/18/2024 21:02
Subject: Re:Any other Luddites here ?
Anonymous wrote:Why the hell are you spending time posting on this site? You sound like a wannabe Luddite.
HAHA! Good point! Let me virtue signal about how great I am . . . but I'm posting it on this trashy site.
Anonymous
02/18/2024 21:01
Subject: Re:Any other Luddites here ?
You risk having kids as annoying and smug as you OP.