📢 CONTEST: Announcing STEEMIT POTPOURRI TREASURE EDITION #3 - Writing - SBD 5* prize ☘☑ ⏳💡💥
Hello Steemit!
Welcome to the Steemit Potpourri Treasure Edition Contest #3 - Writing!
In today's contest, you need to check out the story below and complete it in your very own words! Are you ready for the challenge?
Awesome. Let's get started!
The Story
You are visiting a cousin of yours in the country. Your spouse and your two kids are with you. Your older kid is 10 years old and the younger one is 7 years old. One afternoon, you are taking a walk in the countryside, when all of a sudden your older child cries "Watch out, snake!" You look down and see there's a small snake slithering very fast, just near your right foot. You freeze instantly.
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Your younger child, who's all of seven years, takes one look and says calmly 'don't worry, it's just a harmless brown snake.' and resumes walking. Even as she's speaks, the snake quickly slithers away with no harm done. Thank goodness it was not a venomous snake, but wait, how did your younger one know about the snake?
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You live in a city and there are not many snakes there. Your spouse questions your younger child, who replies, "Why, I read about it on the internet, on a website called Steemit.com. There's a wild man there who befriends snakes, frogs, turtles and such other animals and even takes photos and videos with them. He posts these on Steemit along with a whole lot of information to help others identify these animals and stay aware. I came to know about the brown snake there". You are speechless.
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"Hey, look over there, that's a speckled kingsnake" she calls out. "That's also harmless if you leave it alone." You look and then continue walking still speechless.
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Suddenly, she grabs your hand, points out to a big snake resting some distance away and says "now that one is a slightly poisonous one, especially for children, it's called a pygmy rattlesnake, it's got those cat eyes, let's get away from here before it sees us."
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You take one look and all of you hurriedly move away.
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Your younger child saved your day with her knowledge of snakes. But, at the same time, you feel she is too young to be going online on her own.
Will you censure your daughter now, go back home, and change your computer password so she doesn't log on without your knowledge ever again?
Or will you buy your daughter her favourite ice-cream now, get online on Steemit as soon as you reach home to check out the wild man and learn a thing or two from him yourself?
Or would you do something else? What will you do next? Think and write in as many words you want. The more the better.
*Prizes:
- One SBD 5 prize for the person whose response gets the highest number of upvotes.
- For every 10 participants, an additional SBD 0.50 will be added to the main prize. So the more the participants, the larger the prize!
- For every set of 40 participants, I will giveaway SBD 1 each to additionally any THREE randomly selected entries.
So, do go get all your friends to join. Remember. Resteem. Participate.
Note: The Steemit Potpourri Treasure Edition #3 Contest will be open till 12:01 AM midnight EDT time on 13th July. Please ensure that you send in your entries before that. The winners will be announced on 16th July and the prizes sent after 7 days.
**Special Note: All the amazing photographs of the snakes were reproduced here with kind permission from the photographer, @papa-pepper, one of the best'est' humans I've ever known about! For information on snakes, or any other of his wild friends, please contact him or use the following link:
https://steem-tag-search.herokuapp.com/tagsearch?author=papa-pepper&tag=wild-man
Make sure you follow me for updates and more contests and do upvote to be considered as a participant, and comment here if you have any questions or wish to share your ideas. Thank you!
Here's to you having a good time participating! Cheers! :) - @Sandzat
This is a great contest.
First of all I need to warn my daugther not to simply go to any website. There are many dangerous websites that can harm her. If she comes across any new website, she need my permission to surf there.
Then I will check out the Steemit website to see what type of content is there. I discovered that Steemit is actually a social media platform that actually pays users for their contribution. How amazing. At the end I decided to join Steemit as well.
Haha... good one! :) Thanks for participating!
This is a very creative idea for a contest and it's fun to join as well. Let me know if you organize another contest in the future.
Thank you @positivesteem. Will definitely keep you posted. :)
What a dilemma brilliant !!!
Firstly I would be very impressed that she knew this and had done research herself. This show a great intelligence and that she is not controlled by the indoctrination camps we have (Schools). She would most definitively be congratulated on her knowledge and initiative.
Next I would go home an help her set up a @Steemit account. Making sure that I had blocked what I could using parental controls. I would not tell her off but I would advise to be careful on the internet as just in normal life the are bad things around but not to worry.
I think if you make too much of a big deal over the bad. But still you need to be realistic an factual. So as not too cause 1 off 2 things : 1) it puts then off her clear passion for learning something she is interested in 2) Encourages them to look for this bad stuff. The Internet is a part of life now.
One thing I would make sure I told her it not to spend too much time on it and to make sure she gets out into nature as well and learn that way too :)
I'm happy that you think this way. Thanks for participating, @vibeof100monkeys... :)
I glad you agree, I disagree with our education system of fear and wrapping in cotton wool. Yes we need to protect kids for the evils in society but we also need them to know they are there and there effects. And sometimes they might get scared or hurt themselves but from that they will learn.
What an interesting story @sandzat. Knowledge is power they say. But I say information is power when action is taking.
Sequel to information giving by the small daughter for me it's the daughter safe there life's with the information she receive and clear to me that never stop children from study or from receive information you can never tell when it will be useful.
Your mindset is your lifeset...creating all possible mean to help the small daughter in the area of study is the best line of action.
I will never change password of the computer, in fact I will help my daughter by get her mobile phone with internet access to dig more information knowing that someday she will become a great researcher. cool in my community it is everyday information #minnowhale. #minnowtosupport
That is very high level thinking indeed, @samest! :) Thanks for participating!
Thanks for the commen
Resteemed to give more users a chance to enter!
@papa-pepper, you score phenomenally high on the awesome-o-meter! Seriously, this is proof! :)
My intention for the writing contest was to present an interesting situation filled with visual treats (Your close up shots are terrifying amazing!)! And then get participants to put their thinking caps on to provide insights into how they'd deal with a difficult parenting decision.
I'm glad to see parents/parents-in-the-future stepping forward to articulate their views.
And I'm honestly very grateful for your help. Cheers! - @sandzat
Hey @sandzat ! Thank you for putting so much effort into this! Here is my entry for the story contest, such as it is. I'm afraid, I'm not much of a photographer for the other contest... Cheers, and see you on Discord!
https://steemit.com/writing/@nexusfyre/my-entry-for-steemit-potpourri-treasure-edition-3-writing-sbd-usd5-challenge
Oh, @sandzat . You may want to put links to each separate contests within ever contest. Something like 'Find All the Other Contests here' in each contest
Wow! Just what I had in mind. I put up a page last night clubbing all contests together on one page. Here it is: https://steemit.com/contest/@sandzat/call-for-participants-photography-quiz-and-story-prompt-steemit-potpourri-treasure-edition-week-1-is-on Thanks for the thinking of that and sharing it with me.
I like @Nexusfyre's. Maybe I'll join in a future round... or when it's not bedtime. But I don't think I can create a story better than his, so I'll just curl up in a ball of futility and praise.
I kid. I will always try. But not tonight.
Lol! Totally looking forward to your participation @improv now and in the future. Thank you! Cheers!
Don't be ridiculous! I love your stuff, absolutely hilarious sometimes. Especially your comments. "It's the only way to save the moon..." I laughed and laughed at this, just my kind of humor.
Aw! I didn't know you were a regular reader! It must be why I like your stuff so much. I'm busy working on the big open mic post. We had it last night, and there was a ton of talent. I think and hope that the performers who attended who aren't on Steemit yet will be joining because of the contest, so I'm gonna hold off on actually posting until they've had time to get their accounts approved. But I'm sending them all emails.
And that's why I've not yet entered this contest. We'll see if I can carve out the time! I also have a bunch of lines to learn. I need to also follow my acting career dreams and not get too addicted to the rush of upvotes on steemit.
Ahh, your username is starting to make more sense now :P
Yes! There seems to an abundance of contests, and a lack of time...
There's never enough time for everything.
Yay! I'm so glad. Thanks for participating, @nexusfyre. I'm having different type of contests, so people could get onto the one they are interested in. I'm so glad you participated. Cheers! Most definitely. :)
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Thank you @minnowsupport! Thank you @nexusfyre! :) Appreciate it.
Hey did you announce the winner? I assume I didn't win because I haven't heard anything ;-)
Is there a word limit or prescribed word count?
No word limit @clemdane. The more the better. :)
How do we enter this contest do we put our story in the comments?
Hello @kanedizzle08, yes you can put your story in the comments.
Alternatively, you can post your story on your blog and mention 'STEEMIT POTPOURRI TREASURE EDITION Contest #3 - Writing' in your subject along with your entry name. (Use #spte-contest for your 1st tag. This is mandatory and needed for me to find your entry. You can get creative with your other tags. )
Hope this helps. Look forward to your participation.
Whoops! It wound up as the second tag.
No problem. I followed your link. :)
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