Comments on: The Child Who Has Everything http://www.productivity501.com/the-child-who-has-everything/338/ Pieces of the productivity puzzle. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:42:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: A Morgan http://www.productivity501.com/the-child-who-has-everything/338/comment-page-1/#comment-8070 A Morgan Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:28:04 +0000 http://www.productivity501.com/the-child-who-has-everything/338/#comment-8070 Sitting prominently on my desk is a photo of my toddler having the time of her life playing in a box. Just a simple box that my sister shipped some hand-me-down clothes in. She doesn't need fancy toys with batteries, or authentic reproductions of stuff to play - she has an imagination, and that will serve her better in her life than any working scale model Hummer will. We don't need to mandate poverty, but perhaps if we could mandate common sense... Sitting prominently on my desk is a photo of my toddler having the time of her life playing in a box. Just a simple box that my sister shipped some hand-me-down clothes in.

She doesn’t need fancy toys with batteries, or authentic reproductions of stuff to play – she has an imagination, and that will serve her better in her life than any working scale model Hummer will.

We don’t need to mandate poverty, but perhaps if we could mandate common sense…

]]> By: Mark Shead http://www.productivity501.com/the-child-who-has-everything/338/comment-page-1/#comment-7560 Mark Shead Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:21:52 +0000 http://www.productivity501.com/the-child-who-has-everything/338/#comment-7560 @infmom - I like that idea. Some countries have mandatory military service. Maybe we should have mandatory poverty for a year. It would be interesting to see what type of changes would occur if that were the case. @infmom – I like that idea. Some countries have mandatory military service. Maybe we should have mandatory poverty for a year. It would be interesting to see what type of changes would occur if that were the case.

]]> By: infmom http://www.productivity501.com/the-child-who-has-everything/338/comment-page-1/#comment-7544 infmom Thu, 04 Oct 2007 23:48:25 +0000 http://www.productivity501.com/the-child-who-has-everything/338/#comment-7544 I wish there were some cosmic law that would mandate that everyone spend at least one full year being absolutely dirt poor, at an age when it would make a permanent impression. I wish there were some cosmic law that would mandate that everyone spend at least one full year being absolutely dirt poor, at an age when it would make a permanent impression.

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