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Son Gets $1800 From his Mom for Staying Off Social Media for 6 yearsCan you manage not checking your social media accounts for a day? A week? A year?Sivert Klefsaas did just that — for 6 years, when challenged by his mother to stay off social media. Crazy impressive.Inspired by a similar challenge she heard on the radio named ”16 for 16”, Lorna Goldstrand Klefsaas asked her 12-year-old son Sivert to refrain from using social media until he turned 18 — in exchange for money if he accomplished it. On February 19, 2022, Sivert became $1800 richer.The young man said he was not immensely challenged, since he didn’t often use social media anyway. He even told CNN that it was awesome and he did not think about it too much. And he didn’t have to go without the latest information and trends - he got those from his friends.“I thought, 'Ah what's 6 more years?' I wouldn't say there was ever a time where I thought I was about to break,” Sivert recalled.Lorna never felt the need to check for secretly-downloaded apps. "He's so competitive, it was definitely more for proving a point," she said. Her son agreed, “As it went on, it was more of a pride thing."Now that the time has come for Sivert’s debut in using social media, guess what his first app of choice is? Instagram."There's definitely a learning curve," Sivert said. "I see my friends fly through their social media apps and I can't do that quite yet."After his son’s achievement, Lorna shared the challenge to other parents and said it was the best $1800 she spent."We are certainly not against social media, but it's the healthy using of it," Lorna noted. "It's about not letting yourself get weighed down by it, or addicted to it, or affected by things that people post."Image credit: Lorna Goldstrand Klefsaas#socialmedia #challenge

This Educational Toy Combines a Rubix Cube and a 3D MazeThe ‘Maze and Cube’, an educational toy designed by Yang yang Tu, incorporates the challenge of completing a 3D maze into the already challenging task of completing a Rubik’s cube. This ingenious toy increases playability and aims to satisfy the curiosity of its users. The maze changes as users rotate the cube and allows for an increased variety of statuses and possibilities. Players can complete the challenge in three ways: rolling the steel ball in the cube to reach the terminal point, restoring the Rubik’s cube, or completing both at the same time. “This toy provides a motivation for the development of [the] right brain and memory ability,” the designers say. It can also improve the eye-hand coordination and the spatial thinking of children, whilst also stimulating their curiosity.  The Maze and Cube was a project that started in March 2017 and was completed in July 2017 at the Zhejiang University of Technology in China. It has since then won in the A’Design Award & Competition for the category of ‘Toy, Games and Hobby Products Design’ in 2017-2018.#rubikscube #maze #educational #toy #innovative #challenge #projects #hobby Image: A'Design Award & Competition 