INTRO: Hi I am Katie Brown Today, we are going to celebrate all the inspired, improvising, or “Macgavering” going on in the world at large and at home during this challenging time. SEGWAY Today I want to share an activity that you can do with your family that should help start a discussion about the definition and practice of Macgavering and how it will lead to much needed growth, innovation and recovery during this difficult time. This activity should spark a discussion that the same type of creative engineering that is going on in the world can be taking place right in our own homes and thus transform each and everyone’s life as we struggle through this so that we as individuals and families can come out with new and improved ways of being. The art of Mcgavering is an essential life skill and now is the perfect time to introduce the benefits of the practice. Set up: In this time of sheltering in place do you keep hearing the term Macgyvered? We sure do. We hear it when it comes to making masks and other protective gear We hear it when it comes to providing ventilators…. We hear it when it comes to home schooling, We hear it when it comes to disinfectant And so much more I think this term is a good way to hug what is going on personally, with your family and in our world as a whole during this challenging time. Macgyver was a TV drama staring Richard Dean Anderson that ran from 1987 to 1992. Dean whose character’s name was Annngus escaped life- threatening situations by using his improvised engineering skills and cobbled together ingenuity. Are you seeing the parallels? This is a time when the whole globe is trying to raise to the challenge of combating this virus, which has presented us with unprecedented circumstances, We as a people are trying to look at research, medications, habits, and instruments in a new way that might help us return to our normal life To Macgyver your way out of a situation you must be creative, think fast take a look around and see something in a different way, in a new way, in an inventive way, in a way that is useful in that moment. As we spend day after day within the four walls of our home is it not a good time to encourage our kids to do the same….. To take a look around Take stock of what we need and what we do not need What items and things in our house and home are useful and which our not Which ones can we recycle or reuse in never before thought of ways? Being adaptable and resourceful are such great traits to instill in our young ones. In a world when is so easy to run out and get exactly what you think you need, it is nice to take advantage of a time when that is not an option This is a time where we are a country, a world, a family and people who want something that we do not yet have It is a time that it seems at least in part the quickest ways out, the fastest way to make this happen is to …..very simply put…. “MacGyver it” The Oxford Dictionary states that to “MacGayver” is to make or repair something in an improvised or inventive way, making use of whatever items are on hand” for example, “he MacGyvered a makeshift jack with a log”. In the TV show Macgayver used a pair of binoculars to deflect a laser beam and fashioned a smokescreen from baking soda and vinegar He jump-started a truck with a cactus He used a Dorito, some duct tape, and a paper clip to create a time machine. Make use of this stressful time, MacGyver this time, if you will, encouraging them to find new ways to have fun, learn, laugh and love. The world will do the same, in time, and this planet will too engineer it’s way out of these darks days and into the sunlight with new ways of living, loving and learning. Reassure them that a whole team of brilliant real life MacGyvers are hard at work trying to find solutions to this global pandemic in big ways and in simple ways The Family Doings: To illustrate the idea that we are getting there, that MacGy...
