http://parentalwisdom.com/blog/?p=1685 Helping parents raise good people. Tue, 28 Aug 2018 17:00:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 http://parentalwisdom.com/blog/?p=1685#comment-567500 Tue, 25 Mar 2014 00:50:09 +0000 http://parentalwisdom.com/blog/?p=1685#comment-567500 Pam, our generation had the best childhood!

]]> http://parentalwisdom.com/blog/?p=1685#comment-567478 Tue, 25 Mar 2014 00:09:51 +0000 http://parentalwisdom.com/blog/?p=1685#comment-567478 Just happened to read this yesterday – I SO agree! I grew up on an acre of land that backed up to a woods with thorn bushes and a swamp. I spent hours out there in the summer sitting on a stone wall and reading, or steering a sled that just fit between the trees. Mom literally rang a bell to bring us home for dinner. Where we now live in suburbia, I couldn’t give that to my own children, but I hope that other activities we did still helped them try small risks step-by-step in their own ways, to prepare for the bigger challenges. Thanks for posting.

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