The children yearn for the mines.
Trees and grass and other green things around you in the garden have a positive psychological effect. The feeling of having done something visible has a positive psychological effect. Getting a physical workout has a positive psychological effect.
I know yours is a humorous comment, but a child digging in a garden has nothing to do with them yearning to be an early-capitalism style child laborer.
Jesus dude, go touch some grass.
We all know it’s bad for children to work in mines, its a joke.
I’m on the spectrum and digging a hole, diggy diggy hole. Diggy diggy hole!
I mean, yeah…
I grew up on a farm, if kids got too hype, they got chores.
If you keep a husky puppy locked up in an apartment all day, it’s gonna act out and destroy shit and be difficult.
Same thing with a human kid.
You gotta let them burn that energy kut, giving them an iPad isn’t going to make them tired.
Holes, a wildly popular movie about the very real problem of exploitative kids camps. And yet they persist…
A 6’x3’ hole?
Little dude is chill now because he’s dug your fucking grave, man!
Talk about cathartic. Everytime he feels like you’re a dick to him, all he’s gotta do is think of that hole waiting to swallow your body.
And he’s got a blunt instrument with a handle to fix the size difference, that he’s getting real good at wielding.
Hand him the shovel if you want, but don’t turn your back.