I took my kids yesterday afternoon to the ice cream shop. To be honest, it is not just an ice ream shop, an ice cream boutique would be a more accurate term.
For kids, it is more of an ice cream amusement park. So many different flavors are mounted and decorated in a very attractive way, the customers can taste as many flavors as they want before they order, and an endless choice of toppings is offered.
My children take it for granted. For them this is how an ice cream shop should look like. They can't even think about anything less extravagant.
This always makes me think about the ice cream shops that where available when I was a child, not to mention the fact that ice cream was a luxury item that was consumed only in rare occasions when my parents were kids.
If you think about it, this is true in almost every aspect of our daily lives. the last few generations face tremendous changes that occur very quickly.
I think that by telling my kids how things were in the past, when I was a child, when their grandparents were children and even when my grandparents were children, I give them a great tool to expand their point of view.
This will give them a better perspective, some comparison points and will prepare the grounds for them to live in a fast pace changing environment.
Naturally, I use Batalugu to write stories for them in the form of books. This way I can upload pictures and visualize the stories in a better way.
I encourage you to tell your children about things that you remember or heard in your family's private past in order to better prepare them for the future.
Tell a tale,
Dorit Rosen
Co-founder
http://batalugu.com
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