It happens frequently. As long as Maria Liber keeps me busy with the saga she sends me at regular intervals, I have myself little time for writing. That remaining time applies in great conversations with the grandchildren.
The oldest explains me the difference between English and Portuguese words. That's how I learned the right Portuguese translation for tablet is iPad. But he also keeps me informed about developments in the universe, according to him due to two black attendees: the black holes and Darth Vader.
The second oldest has some difficulties in keeping me updated in the world of children's films and series money making companies have convenient concession privileges with. Sometimes protagonists remain almost unchanged, others went off to the future. I can still recognise some Disney characters and Marvel heroes from my own childhood. A few heroes from the childhood of my daughters still exist, but some princesses of the universe take a discreet second place or have completely disappeared.
They apparently did not get the right franchise contract.
This I can check with my granddaughter informing me about all old and new princesses travelling today on earth and in the universe undergoing adventures similar as those of other starred people.
Meanwhile the three of them follow with great attention a patrolling dog brigade on Earth.
Large toy brands have today the same "Just in Time" philosophy as the large supply companies preparing today’s children for the fast and seemingly individual decisions they will be persuaded to take as adults in order of maintaining consumption levels high.
However, the old range from my childhood and their mother's childhood continues to connect with the more targeted and finished products from their ‘grandchildhood’. We may not be the correct consumers. We connect new with old instead of replacing old by new. We continue to make all kinds of settings ourselves with paper, cardboard and modelling compounds.
My grandchildren grow up in a world to which it is extremely difficult to give a different outcome than that false future of unlimited growth due to unbridled consumption.
I just retrieved in my library the Dutch translation of Jostein Gaarder’s It is we who are here now. And I look forward to the next contribution Maria Liber will sent, assisting me in my condition of grandfather telling my grandchildren in a much more modest way a different possible world.
The oldest explains me the difference between English and Portuguese words. That's how I learned the right Portuguese translation for tablet is iPad. But he also keeps me informed about developments in the universe, according to him due to two black attendees: the black holes and Darth Vader.
The second oldest has some difficulties in keeping me updated in the world of children's films and series money making companies have convenient concession privileges with. Sometimes protagonists remain almost unchanged, others went off to the future. I can still recognise some Disney characters and Marvel heroes from my own childhood. A few heroes from the childhood of my daughters still exist, but some princesses of the universe take a discreet second place or have completely disappeared.
They apparently did not get the right franchise contract.
This I can check with my granddaughter informing me about all old and new princesses travelling today on earth and in the universe undergoing adventures similar as those of other starred people.
Meanwhile the three of them follow with great attention a patrolling dog brigade on Earth.
Large toy brands have today the same "Just in Time" philosophy as the large supply companies preparing today’s children for the fast and seemingly individual decisions they will be persuaded to take as adults in order of maintaining consumption levels high.
However, the old range from my childhood and their mother's childhood continues to connect with the more targeted and finished products from their ‘grandchildhood’. We may not be the correct consumers. We connect new with old instead of replacing old by new. We continue to make all kinds of settings ourselves with paper, cardboard and modelling compounds.
My grandchildren grow up in a world to which it is extremely difficult to give a different outcome than that false future of unlimited growth due to unbridled consumption.
I just retrieved in my library the Dutch translation of Jostein Gaarder’s It is we who are here now. And I look forward to the next contribution Maria Liber will sent, assisting me in my condition of grandfather telling my grandchildren in a much more modest way a different possible world.