This week theme from Blog English Club is Children Games. I have once made a post in Indonesian about my childhood games, Bermain di Alam.
My family used to live in small cities around the country. One of them was a small city in Langkat regency, North Sumatera. The surrounding was formerly a hilly rubber plantation. There were still rubber trees and in some part also you could find cashew nut trees. I loved to play outdoors after school time with my neighbors. We would ran to the small valley at the back of the houses. We loved to collect the gum from the rubber trees by made a cut on the bark. We applied the fluidy gum on the inside of the forearm. After a moment it would dry and could be rolled and formed like a ball. We also played hide and seek there, or swinged like Tarzan, collected forest fruits, caught eels, etc.
Compared to the children games nowadays, I must admit many things have changed. Game world now is influenced by the improvement of technology and kids prefer to do indoor activities.
I can not merely blame on the technology, or parents who prefer let their children stay at home to play outside. Many reasons to ban play outside, such as the security and the safety beyond parents’s eyes, the traffic on the street, lack of public gardens, the long hour school time and the news of some criminal cases.
Children now play virtual game with their gadgets or just watch television. The “creative people” make toys inspired by TV series, the toys that I do not think are proper and safe for children. For instance this dentures with their long canines imitate the werewolves from TV series Ganteng Ganteng Serigala.
In my surroundings I still can see children play outside with the presence of adults accompanying them. I can see they still ride their bicycles or playing badmintons with grandmothers or mbaks. Parents now also likes to bring their kids to malls to play in the playground supervised by professionals.
HUahahahhaa
You Got Me Kak … You’ve Got Me
After last week I met mermaid tail … now I discover “Gigi Ganteng Serigala”
Horay!
Shake Hand Me
ha.. ha.. next mainan apa lagi ya oom
Keinget masa kanak2 dlu deh .. mae gigi drakula hehehe π
beda banget mainan anak2 dahulu dengan anak-anak sekarang.
mainan dulu sekarang bisa dimainin di gadget π
apalagi sekarang udah tambah banyak playground juga ya di jakarta…
Zamannya ngemall sih, Kak.. Mau kek mana lagi.. Tapi masih mending kalok main bola-bolaan dalem mall. Seenggaknya bikin keringetan π
iya lumayan lah ya Beb badan anak2 itu bisa gerak sikit
Mainan gigi drakula itu harusnya udah lama, sih. Cuma mungkin emang sekarang jadi naik daun lagi gara-gara gege es.
oh udah lama ya.., ha aku baru liat pas sinetron itu booming
A very wise approach Mbak Monda. I overlooked the security and all those things. Thanks Mbak Monda for reminding me of that part. π
ooh thanks Dan… iya sih pasti ada alasan orang tua kasih gadget aja
jamanku dulu mana ada mainan yg bikin betah main dalam rumah, palingan lego doang… film tv juga adanya abis magrib kan jadi bisanya keliaran aja di luar he..he…
Saya nggak pernah nonton, mbak…ini sinetron favoritnya Bato…ngomong-ngomong, gigi hijaunya serem bangetttt!
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Bato kayaknya hafal semua sinetron nih mbak?
Very true. The world changes, so do children games π .
bener banget,
Ganteng2 Serigala apaan sih Mbak? Hahahahaha.
You are lucky Mbak still able seeing those kids playing outside.
aah..biasa sinetron remaja lagi naik daun
Gak ikutin Mbak. Jd kudet
Kak Monda, kalau lagi jaman aku kecil tuh gigi palsu warnanya putih semua. Lucu juga ada yg warna hijau gitu haha.
nggak tau ini kenapa kok hijau gitu..namanya juga mainan ngasal nih.., kl nggak salah harganya cuma dua ribuan
If I am not mistaken, my friend had tried that kind of dentures at school π but it was inspired by vampires, I think.
I agree with you, Mbak Monda. We cannot blame the technology, just make sure that the children gain optimum benefits from any game that they play.
ha..ha.. iya salah aku bilang giginya werewolf ya
thanks Ami
Nggak kok, Mbak, dulu kan belum ada Ganteng2 Serigala..hihi
Ini Sinet kesukaan Sulung saya…dan Ibuk’e paling sebel kalo udah saatnya belajar malah ngomongin Aliando terus,,,hehehehehe
wk..wk..iya sih diputarnya pas jam belajar ya mbak
Langsung ketawa begitu ada obrolan soal Ganteng Ganteng Serigala.. itu beneran terinspirasi seri tv itu ya mbak?
iya …
anak2 TK langsung aja seneng, yang jualan itu abang2 di depan sekolah…
entah itu plastik jenis apa…,kalau pakai gigi palsu itu mulutnya harus nganga terus…giginya nyambung atas bawah