Encouraging youngsters to use their imaginations, to create their own games,  and to play in the out-of-doors instead of sitting before a computer or TV screen results in enjoyment many may not experience in today’s technological world.
When I see my grandson and his cousin spending the afternoon in the woods around our home, building forts, playing games without electronic accompaniments, and using their imaginations, I’m taken back to my childhood when the radio was the only gadget we had around.  Televisions did exist but we couldn’t get reception out in the country where we lived.
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What are you doing in the natural world around you this week?
*Working in the family garden…planting vegetables and flowers?
*Reading books about animals?
*Learning how to care for your pets?
*Exploring around your yard?   What have you found there?
*Taking a hike this weekend?  Or camping out?
*Catching fireflies?  Watching them light up a jar?  Then letting them loose.
*Watching ants scurrying along carrying food to their hill home?
*Lying on your back in the grass and looking at the clouds form all different shapes?
*Noticing the different shades of green on the leaves and bushes?
*Learning about thunderstorms?
Then searching through your books to learn more about these topics?
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