Is this how they build the world, dad?

We're in the process of moving into our brand new home which has been a mission within itself and has taken 6 - 7 years and heavy financial losses to get to this point.

If you've been following along you might remember the challenges we had relating to having to sell our developed unit which was built at the back of someone's house due to the Royal Commission into banking that changed how financing from banks was done. We initially had a pre approval and put a deposit on land and build.

It was revoked and we lost the initial build deposit and had to run around looking for a bank to loan us the money or we would lose both the unit AND the land.

Then COVID hit and we had more financial issues and had to remove quite a lot from the initial build in order to cover financing issues but this problem hasn't been unique to us it has impacted a lot of people across the globe.

These are very hard times indeed and I'm sure those of us fortunate enough to get through it will remember it dearly. There are many more that haven't been able to preserver through and subsequently have lost out.

We've had contractors over the past few days and the area around us is still a new development with wet lands, parks, gardens and playgrounds still being built. The reason for the flatness is a lot of this area was prime farming and levelled many years ago to grow food and Breed cattle.

Since Melbourne's growth all this area has become highly valuable land and rezoned for housing. Although the quarter acre blocks are no longer a thing land is around 400sqm to 500sqm with a few larger blocks on offer.

With all the developments happening around us it spiked a question from little miss that also came with a learning opportunity and an insight into how young minds think and piece the world together.

Little Miss asked me if this is how the world is built and if we can just keep extending the world as if it was a never ending eternity. Definitely a different perspective from flat earth ideology and perhaps this is the emergence of a new ideology one in which the next generation who is experiencing expanding cities perceives the world that we are the ones that just add to it.

So it came as a good time to sit with both the kids and explain transitional development and how the land has been here long before us and will continue long after us also.

How land use has different uses and over time change impacts all things and how one this was pristine country side hunting and gathering it then transitioned to be useful in growing crops and farming animals.

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Now the land is continuing to provide for us by being a small parcel for us to build our home on and build our family memories but throughout all the changed we still need to ensure we take care of the land so that it's future use can be unimpaired by our time here.

Little miss also spent some time drawing the stages of the concrete development and enjoyed learning about how things work.

How do you teach your kids about the world around us? Have you had similar questions?



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my 7-year old boy has started to ask very wise and good questions too.
Being in a restaurant, he was surprised we need to pay for food there;)
I explained him a finansial world system for a little bit. Now he wants to go to a kid's show, and I explained him he needs money for a ticket. He can do what he can to help me or Dad or doing something useful at home, and thus he can earn some money - that's how money is earned. You do what you can and like for other people, and you get money. Let's see how it will work;)

It's very hard times, you're right. We all feel it. A great amount of difficulties and broken plans.
I dream of my own house, and I hoped for crypto to get it, but now I see my plans are being broken too. But what doesn't kill us, make us stronger!

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Ah yes money. My little one thought everything was free or costed $1 oh how that would have been nice. Lol

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kid's world is perfect - there are no conditions there. you want, and you get it:)
so easy and so brilliant

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Haha they go to the bank of Mum/Dad.

I hope your dreams of being able to purchase a new home with crypto come to life. It would be a wonderful achievement

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yeah...the main question is when world events will let us using our crypto millions?:)

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Hi @melbourneswest, the pandemic affected us all and many plans were left unfinished, some didn't even make it to the first phase, a new beginning brings new hopes and new experiences, plus it leaves us learning a lot about life. I wish you much success and blessings in the stage you are now starting.

My son also has the belief that everything is cheap with 10 Bs he thinks he can buy many things, when we go out he offers me many gifts counting on his capital.

Greetings!

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Indeed it did and so many have gone without I am fortunate in the long run.

Oh money is something that is hard to get across to kids they think everything is free.

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😂😂😂 that's how children thinks,to them life is so simple.

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Undoubtedly, children love to see in detail how the construction of the various things around them is carried out, and in their world every new discovery and in the case of buildings and urbanisms they love them. My children asked me about castles, once we went to visit a place here in my country where there are some castles and they were impressed and asked me about the owners, the tour guide listened to the question and without further ado told them they have been dead for years and then my children answered osea they are ghosts. And since then every time they see a castle, even in a movie, they say the house of the ghosts. ha ha ha ha ha ha.

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