Tribe
Bends and Hitches, Crafts, forts & such, Knots, wood (7)
About a month ago, my brother-in-law, Dwight, introduced Ford to a video game on his computer called Spore, an open-ended, metaverse game of evolution and social development. At first, I was skeptical of the game just as I am of all video games for Ford at his young age. I was raised without electronic media and have always assumed that it was inherently disruptive to a child's cognitive and social development. In fact, the impetus behind the Boy's Almanac project is the fear I have of my children losing touch with nature by the tractor beam of electronic media. I'm ...