Making risky play our business
This is the sixteenth part in a series of discussions regarding The Idle Parent Manifesto, which can be found in Tom Hodgkinson’s book The Idle Parent: Why Laid-Back Parents Raise Happier and Healthier Kids. Need to get caught up? You can do so here. Down With School Well, well, well … isn’t this a [...]
Sometimes we get a little bored around here. And sometimes, I manage to channel that boredom into something fun. Not always risky, but still fun. Near the end of summer break we found ourselves with a rainy afternoon and a desperate need for something to do. In the beginning of summer break it’s easy to [...]
Just wanted to give you all a heads up that The Risky Kids will be taking a mini hiatus for the next 3 weeks. Not coincidentally, that’s about how long we have until school starts again. The summer is flying by too quickly, and the kids and I collectively agree that we need more Ferris [...]
Like a soft-serve cone in July, summer is quickly melting away. My kids go back to school in less than 3 weeks, and I still feel like we have so much summer fun left to accomplish! We have a fun weekend trip to St. Louis coming up, as well as some camping, the Indiana State [...]
Nothing makes me happier than looking out my front windows and seeing our yard and the cul-de-sac in front of our home full of kids. We are lucky to have 11 kids just on our little street, and several more just a house or two away from our block that sometimes wander over to play [...]
Later today I will pick up Elena from Girl Scout Camp. This is her second, and final, week at camp this summer. For 11 days and 10 nights we had absolutely no contact with her. We could send bunk notes (essentially email), but she couldn’t email back. I sent her with enough stationary and stamps [...]
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