[speaker001:] uh our children are both uh basically adults they we've we've got two uh one's twenty one and one's twenty five and they they still live at home
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker001:] well that's that's a little unusual for uh for children of that age to have both of them that age at home but uh I guess the activities that uh we have with them are uh pretty few and far between actually the they're both going on their own most of the time
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] so uh most of our activities are you know just discussion type things about what's going on in the family and what they're doing and
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] that kind of thing
[speaker002:] well we have a uh three year old and a one year old
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh so we you know it keeps us pretty busy as you know
[speaker001:] sure it does
[speaker002:] and uh most of the time with a three year old we're trying to to get him uh well we play usually in the evening when when I get home you know about five o'clock or so until about eight and you know with exception of dinner out in the front or back yard playing like uh tee ball off the you know off the ball and let him hit a lot of baseball uh since we just got here here we got a uh a new two wheel bike with training wheels on it for him and he really likes riding that around
[speaker001:] uh-huh oh yeah I
[speaker002:] so you know I'm trying to supervise him with that and everything and uh playing squirt guns and all that and he really likes that
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and uh the one year old just kind of follows along and does everything trying to do everything he does
[speaker001:] yeah is the one year old a boy a girl
[speaker002:] it's a girl yeah
[speaker001:] ours is the older one's a girl so and the and the younger one's a boy so um
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] I guess uh what I see is so far as uh the trends uh uh for children uh I don't know what kind of a area Virginia Beach is but course uh Richardson's in the Dallas area
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and uh I think uh the big city uh activities for for children now are they're good but there's so much uh potential danger you know that you really have to watch your children so closely now that you you can't let them grow up the way
[speaker002:] hum-um
[speaker001:] the way I grew up you know that I I'm from a smaller town in East Texas and I could you know go and do whatever pretty much whatever I wanted to do uh my whole life uh you know I never never had to worry about the bad guys being out there
[speaker002:] hm oh um-hum
[speaker001:] and uh you know I find that it's quite a bit different now that uh you know you have to watch your children so closely and uh keep up with them I I feel like uh that it's it's really a sad commentary on uh you know on life in general that uh you know that children can't cannot be allowed to grow up uh you know without
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] really close supervision
[speaker002:] well I I agree with that and I seem I seem to feel the same way you know even just when I grew up and everything and and the way it is now your it's a lot of supervision is in is in hand and everything uh the only other thing I have noticed though is that uh it seems that there's been a lot
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] of or more emphasis emphasis at least in what we've been dealing with and and uh looking you know just start not even not really looking for a school for him but uh like a preschool or something you know where he'd go maybe a couple hours a couple days a week or something
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] for for a three year old it's that uh there's a lot of emphasis on on on on education and what these children should know before they reach kindergarten
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] and it and it seems like it's a lot more they need they need to know and be able to do than when we are then when I had to go into kindergarten kindergarten
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and it seems like it's more uh you know I don't know they're expecting more or uh or just uh you know kids just because of the computer age or whatever it just know more but when they get to you know to be five or six or something
[speaker001:] yeah um I guess looking at uh back at at what our children did compared to what uh you know what I had to go through in school
[speaker002:] but
[speaker001:] the uh there is there does seem to be a lot more in the curriculum it's a lot more complicated a lot more available of course
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] but uh there seems seem to be a so much more to learn now that it it really makes it more difficult I would think I would I would probably have a hard time getting through school myself uh you know I just or at least it'd be a lot harder than it was when I went to school
[speaker002:] uh-huh um-hum one thing is I got a home computer too and uh I play uh with the three year old I play some computer games and stuff with him educational games like you know concentration type game matching things like that and uh he's he really likes it and and uh
[speaker001:] uh-huh right yeah
[speaker002:] and I think it's important because I think that uh you know it gives him the interaction with the computer because it sure looks like that's gonna be your you know the big thing for a long time
[speaker001:] hm yeah I think uh
[speaker002:] and given given that knowledge and stuff with it and he seems to enjoy it
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] and uh of course the one year old hasn't hasn't gotten there yet but uh and the other thing we try to do is uh since the summer's time's here is uh sign him up for and her for uh different activities at like the rec center or something like swimming you know uh or soccer there's a little soccer thing that he's gonna do for a week or so and uh you know where they go for an hour or so
[speaker001:] right yeah yeah
[speaker002:] and uh because uh when he was a baby that we did the swimming too and he really liked it so we're gonna do that with our daughter too
[speaker001:] yeah that uh uh watching the little little boys play soccer is uh is more fun I can't imagine that them having as much fun as the parents had watching them
[speaker002:] I know well we were just talking about that too and I guess it's not really soccer it's just kind of a well kick the ball around for a while and see what happens
[speaker001:] right yeah disorganized disorganized disorganized play that's uh really really what it was but
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] but uh yeah when ours was a he I guess he was probably five or six you know when he first started playing soccer and uh and it was it was more fun to watch those boys trying to trying to kick the ball up and down the field
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker001:] but uh and it I guess that was uh you know it was important uh as much important to the parents as it was to the children that uh you know to get out and watch the kids play so
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] I guess one of the things that I think about is a you talking about education uh I kind of feel like uh that uh the the school systems in uh particularly in this area the systems are not under enough control the the students have a little too much uh too much leeway excuse me
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] um and and and and that's kind of contradictory to what I said but you know you the have you have to be under control so much when they're out but when they're in school they they don't have quite quite as much control over them as uh
[speaker002:] right right
[speaker001:] as what I would like to have seen uh uh uh I kind of feel like there's there's too much allowed to go on in at at school
[speaker002:] right um-hum
[speaker001:] and uh you know it tends to uh to encourage students to not be as you know to not concentrate as much on education you know they're they're there for a good time and you know to to see how little they can get by with
[speaker002:] um-hum right um-hum well I know a number of people that are in the in the uh school district and down in in uh San Antonio
[speaker001:] uh
[speaker002:] and uh it seems like it's a lot of the problem is to you know you always have the lack of funds but it seems to be getting worse and worse and so they don't have the resources to draw on to give as much supervision as as as kids need
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] and uh you know that's just a problem that who knows how that's gonna that's gonna come out or anything
[speaker001:] but uh yeah
[speaker002:] but
[speaker001:] but uh I I I don't know I think uh you know some of the thing has to do with uh with the civil rights program not that the civil rights program's bad but that there's it carried over into you know individual rights and it you know trickled out
[speaker002:] uh-huh