Posted by Prue Eckett on August 18, 2004 at 22:22:59 from 222.152.169.200 user PrueEckett.
In Reply to: Re: Swallows in 2004? posted by John Nichols on August 18, 2004 at 17:02:51:
I have to agree there - young children are capable of much more than they are often given credit for. One has only to read of the recent survival in Northern Australia of three children aged 7 up to 14 to see that. In NZ we have an Outward Bound programme where children of all ages (and adults) go through a survival programme where part of it entails three days solitude in the bush without food. They must forage and survive - and they haven't yet lost anyone although the winters in that neck of the woods is mighty cold.
My own children played in local hills and valleys (granted they had large and protective dogs with them and were always in groups of at least three) and we chose a lesser income for a number of years in order to give them that lifestyle).If your children are too cosetted, maybe you need as parents to ask yourself why you do this to them?