Real life, offline, there's really nothing like it!
Though it may be hard to believe, prior to steemit I never really spent much time online at all. Unfortunately, I think that far too many spend far too much on time, and these days many children have a hard time once they are no longer staring at a screen. Be it television, computers, smart phones, video games, or tablets, a lot of little faces see far too many pixels and are disconnected from the real world passing by all round us.
REAL LIFE!
Thankfully, we can choose how to live and what to do. Our @little-peppers rarely watch movies, pretty much never watch television, and when we take long family trips in the car, they either talk, look at books, or look out the window. We figured that as soon as they had a DVD player or tablet to look at, they'd never be content without one, so we avoided that all together. A twenty nine hour drive from central Wisconsin to south Texas can be long, but there is something to be said for being content and patient too.
Recently we've been having a blast offline. Fun, spunky little goat kids can do that to you. I wish that I was better at capturing the images and gifs, but I'll still share what I do get.
I think it is interesting to remember how many games exist where you can farm or garden. Trust me, they pale in comparison to actually doing it and actually living it. Truth be told, there is no app for this. Just look at how spontaneously random these kids react to seemingly nothing and begin jumping around.
I know that not everyone has the opportunity to live the lifestyle that we've chosen, and it took a lot of work to get us where we are today. I'm not trying to badmouth anyone or any lifestyle, but rather to encourage others. There is still a real world out there, so don't get too disconnected. Take the time to feed the ducks down by the river, watch the birds at the bird feeder, or take a walk in the woods.
Also, if you are more limited with your mobility, feel free to enjoy these photos and gifs for what they are worth. We don't mind if you live vicariously. Just look at how much wild fun it is! Long before we ever had any little goats of our own, we stopped in at a farm and got to enjoy it all without actually having the animals. I'd highly recommend that for anyone, but especially for those of you with children. It's really worth it!
If you've never had the pleasure to watch little goats kids with their interesting antics, you really should sometime. Perhaps I'll try to make a video in the future, but these gifs will show you a bit of it. Honestly, I'm glad that I can take these real life experiences and share them digitally online too! They will probably at least make you smile, if not laugh out loud.
As always, I'm @papa-pepper and here's the proof:
proof-of-real-life
Until next time…
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This is what is truly called real life, a lot of people never have the previlege to enjoy such a natural lifestyle, @papa-pepper you are such a great and unbias writer and lover of animals, nature and natural lifestyle, am really encouraged by the way you make steemit intrestine for we in this rural part of the world. We That wine and dine with livestocks, Once again thanks for the wonderful post ! You have just made my day!
Your reply made my day! Thanks man!
You are the boss sir, i will always cherish your humanitarian life, may you live long to bring more happiness to people like us and the world at large!
Long live papa-pepper!
Long live steemians!
Yes, you have a point there. In this modern and materlistic world we have become so busy that we have forgotten how to live and love.
We have destroyed nature, we are cutting trees and we are fighting with each other.
Excess of everything is dangerous but sometimes we have to watch television and use gadgets otherwise we will be left behind from others.
It has both aspects.
Yes, it is a careful balance that we must strive to maintain. Obviously I know the blessing of technology, but I'll maintain my focus on what there is in the real world too. Thanks @suf1an for sharing your input!
This is living
This is another level of showing us there is more than technology.
Actually you are suited for whatever situation that come your way.
You are a true homesteader and high reputation-er steemian.
keep on steemin'
fantastic! we almost spent most of our time in man-made environment, facing the monitor, less contact with real world. Being off line is just another way to charge our head, remove the dust, smell the fresh air and many more...thank for sharing the goat..warmest regard
Well said!
Love seeing the papa in @papa-pepper. Keep fathering your children well. That will be something that neither you or they will forget. Great investment!
Thank you for supporting my investment!
Always glad to support dads! I know how challenging and rewarding it is to raise kiddos. My wife and I have 5 littles.
Cool! I can't wait to meet up! Nice post on your last one too!
Thanks!
OMG THE PHOTOS ARE PRECIOUS!!! I love how the kids are all skipping! <333
Thankyou for the smiles ^_^
Glad that they made you smile! It is a precious time!
I love the goats! Cute, good with kids and very low maintenance. We currently have 7 and plan on 5 more. Here in the Philippines we hope to make it into a ministry to the very poor. Our area has almost no dairy. We give a young doe to a family. When she has her first litter (not sure of the terminology with goats) they give one of the babies back to us for a future family. The new owner can sell the kids for around $30 USD. They can drink the milk. I plan on trying my hand at cheese.
That is a very good ministry indeed! Milk, continued ministry, and a potential source of income! I love it!
That’s awesome! Staring at the screen is all too common within the family unit now a days! It’s great to get out and enjoy nature! That’s the real prescription for depression! Thanks for the great reminder!
Cool! Thanks for pointing that out too!
This is awesome. When I was a kid, we played outside as much as we could. Rode our bikes from sun up to sun down. From one end of town to the other and then back again. Swam in rivers and ponds. Hated going home...
I m software developer working full-time day in front of laptop and Staring at the screen is all too common within the family unit now a days! It’s great to get out and enjoy nature! That’s the real prescription for depression
This remind me of my childhood lovely days those were
Lost somewhere now I miss those days a lot
Glad to hear that you appreciated it!
This is so great! You got the great point here......
heavens know how anticipated I'm always is waiting for your post, not for any other reason but for the fact that it points me to the next direction on homesteading. Apart from the fun of it, I learnt looking into goat rearing. For the pleasure that it gives, only the person that has never experienced such will think otherwise. I love a lifestyle with animals around. thanks for this post sir!
Excellent your comment. I am new to this community and I am very happy to know that there are people who really value the most important things in life: what you can't buy with money. Love, family, sincere friendship, health, faith and trust in GOD and the healthy enjoyment of what He has given us through nature. Today with so much career in life for obtaining material goods, for using telephones, tablets, computers, etc.., We have forgotten to live a full life and for that we do not require much money or material goods, we need to know how to enjoy the miracles that happen around us at every moment (a beautiful sunrise, a beautiful full moon, a singing bird, a blue or cloudy sky, trees, flowers and a long etc.) and we do not enjoy them because we are distracted. Excellent your reflection because the human being, instead of taking care of and enjoying nature, is unfortunately destroying the planet that serves as a home for all of us!!
https://steemit.com/life/@lauraac/there-is-no-app-for-this
I wouldnt have been more happier without this post. it actually made my morning. apart from being interesting and having a feel of what what you experienced, stuffs to learn are therein and I'very picked them. I'm loving nature, I'm living a free and enjoying the company of animal soon
well-done sir
good..
i am flowing & please follow my post..@runa44
I confess I'm one of the people you describe as having modified her brain into that search for fast and easy comfort. Even though I like to think and read, my brain refuses to do it unless I force it to. I've used Steemit a lot for this. I for one write poems, so I also travel the poetry tag and read poems and comment on them. Sometimes, I use the poems on Steemit to inspire myself to write my own lol. So I post them as comments and then post them as full posts. It feels like cheating sometimes but it works lol.
Right now I'm reading my first e-book in some months. I'm very proud. Steemit helped me achieve this. I don't think I could have achieved it on my own. I even go to the gym and exercise, I spend time away from the screen, but I was accustomed to not thinking, to talking to people, to finding quick satisfaction in my activities. Drawing a quick picture, writing a quick story.
After I finish this light e-book, I want to go for some classics. I hope my mind will let me. :)
Very glad to hear that steemit is helping you, and I think it's clever to use really good comments you make as full posts.
Oh hooo....its natural capture.....
I'm astonishing to see your awesome photography of life style .
Lovely shot....
Love it
It's some fun stuff for sure!
I feel my boyhood life form this capture.
Really miss I my past day.
wow..so.nice post thanks for.sharing...
a happiness that is priceless
You are right @papa-pepper these are the real life fun games that most of us played in our childhood, and you are looking very sweet in your proof image,hahah.
wow nice post
i like it
thanks for sharing
keep it on
this is great fun for them, even though they do not live with online life.
but they sngat happy @papa-pepper.
nice post @papa-pepper...
Thanks @fadhielshaqieer! I'm glad that you enjoyed it!
same @papa-pepper ..
I am the person who chats you on discord..
Greetings from me..
Wow nice post
I couldn't agree more. Kids in my town are still enjoying the real life most of the time however, I've seen lots of kids in the city who are very hooked to gadgets. I wish they could also enjoy what I enjoyed when I was a kid.
Yeah, these ones are enjoying a lot more than I did, but I chose to sit around watching cartoons.
It is. I used to do those when I was little since I have been living in our small town for almost all of my life. Since, my grandfather had a farm, even until now, I had experienced riding on a carabao. That was fun. :-)
thank you for sharing @ papa-pepper
Very beautiful Photography and cute goat And funny, I will resteem your information to my blog.
When I was a kid, we played outside. We had a swingset in the back yard, and a creek that we could block. It was loads of fun. We climbed trees and built forts. I think it's cool your kids get to do some of the same things too.
I loved the creek behind my parents house as a child. So many fun memories.
I like your style, your kids will grow up all the better without technology.
Thank you for the support and encouragement!
Beautiful very post it, I really like ,
Thank you @good-darma!
Same same, I am new beginner, father for uvote me yes ,, I you fren ,,,,,
Real world playing with nature is very fun. It is a very positive style of educating children to adapt to the world they are sure to trace. Moreover we can give him how to care for pets while playing happily. Thanks for a very helpful post @papa-pepper.
it is a very funny animal..how do you make him become very tame ??
They settle down as they grow... hopefully.
Wow! This is parenting done right. I'm really lucky to have a childhood without tablets or phones. It has to do mainly with the time I was born. I think the 90s kids were the last generation who actually lived their childhood! After that it's like the childhood phase is completely deleted from every kid. Little Peppers are really lucky to be able to have such a childhood even in these times.
Cheers!
Yeah I was an eighties/nineties kid, so cartoons and nintendo were about the worst of it, but I still might have gotten too much.
really nothing like that, that online and real life is what we all. should concentrate on,
leave this virtual world,
this virtual world has made us its slave,
just us and the 4 walls around us,
we forgot to do our social services, forgot to maintain our physical fitness,
all in all this virtual life is destroying us to a great extent and we people just ignore....
Too much of it these days for sure.
Wauhhh......some times I wonder how people live in the U.S.A or Europe. In Africa, we live in a community "UBUNTU" a community of sharing and living with others. We only have only one definition of life" eating,playing,dancing and crying with others. Technology has started separated us from the society which has a negative effect to the future generation. Actually, I only knew my real brothers when I was 5 years old, and everyone was many . Everyone gave me food and everything I needed. I long to go back to my village (Rwanda) and remake that life
That sounds much better than what a lot of people do here. Here too many don't even bother to know their neighbors.
very good posts, incredible information, as the economy improves, and the increase in the income of the affluent, the time becomes more valuable: every hour means more, so we feel more pressure to fill it with more work. But busyness is also the result of the kind of work that we generally do and sometimes in the field of photography.tapi your photography is very remarkable.
Good morning sir... Lovely seeing your family.
It's good to keep children active.
This post would go nicely in the weekly program I will be organizing every weekend. From next week.
Good job @papa-pepper (the best dad ever) to me..
Pretty much reminded me of my childhood... Those were the days we spent most of our times outside and playing various games. We even play out at night especially when the moon's so bright. <3 I really hope kids these days would be able to experience what "being kids" felt like back in the days. It saddens me how attached they are to their gadgets and the Internet... T_T I'm glad to know that your @little-peppers are enjoying their time outside the virtual world. Keep it up!!! ^^ Thanks for sharing this... It really brought back "nostalgic feels"... <3
Thank you @tegoshei! I used to love playing by the moonlight too!
You're welcome @papa-pepper!!! ^^
kiddos are really having fun with the little goats
Such happy times are really irreplaceable @papa-pepper, something money can't buy, and healthier than exposing kiddos on gadgets
As they say: Once you put down your phone , life happens
Stay awesome @papa-pepper 👍😊❤️❤️❤️
Wow! That is a good saying!
yes @papa-pepper i was really amazed on that saying too, i get that in a local beauty pageant on tv , in the q&a portion 😀
Have a great day @papa-pepper
hopefully children are healthy
and keep running after the dream
Children at play. Always a beautiful sight.
It always is! Thanks @islandliving!
Lovely to see the children living a full life, well done @papa-pepper!
I sometimes wish there's a limit for us to use electronic devices everyday, devices will turn themselves off or something like that. People are way more comfortable staying online then engaging in a conversation. Not only kids, adults too, should spend more time offline to really live. Otherwise we are just devices' slaves. Also, it's very ironic that I have to say this online.
Yeah, it sounds interesting sharing that online, but your words are true nonetheless.
I like the goats alot. Liked and re-Steemed.
Awesome real life. Greater percentage of the younger population in the world miss a lot the natural games due to either lack of time by the parents to their children, small environment they live in , lack of interest, resources or a multiple of those and many more. In most developing countries like Uganda, many parents hardly send time with their children, they are raised by the help of the nuns or house helpers who in most cases have house dueties to acomplish in time and they also have life to lead out of work. So they tend to tunne TVs or also on social media platforms. And in this situation, the children's creativity may not be as superb as for the children more exposed and not confined within the houses.
YOU ARE SOOOOO BLESSED my friend.
UpVoted!
There is nothing as beautiful as being a child. I wish we were kids all the time.
Natural things are natural we never feel boring of seeing like this type of goats & their kids looking so cute. We can enjoy with them in every time, thanks for sharing this@ papa-pepper
Due to the fast changing world of technology we have really neglected our culture and tradition and move on to the gadgets like phone laptop computer tablets and other electronic goods we have almost forgotten the old good days spend by our parents and their parents playing with goat comes in that tradition too we may think we are keep the world in our finger tips but our parents and their parents enjoyed their childhood..
Awesome post i am so emotional i can't make you understand the pics are so heart touching
Good point. Thank you. Glad to hear that this post hit home with you.