Pick up a feather from the ground
Oh, dawtee. I let kiddo put wood in the campfire when mom isn't looking, hahaha. She's 4.
I hope she can keep her mouth shut!
Wait, is there a segue for this anecdote?
Was that the one where the guy compared kids playgrounds of the past with ones nowadays. It was in a TED talk I saw about letting kids take risks I think.
1) Pick up a feather from the ground
Sounds more like a generational difference than a cultural one.
I grew up in central Florida in the sixties, and the playgrounds I played on were dirt, though probably at one time grass, before the millions of kid feet killed it all, but the one at school was asphalt!--hard surface, except when it was super hot and almost molten. The city park was grass and dirt, but had a bunch of peacocks running loose, and they are some mean bastards. TIL that the collective noun for peafowl is an ostentation.
And of course there was always an adult right there beside you to shout “Be careful!” any time you went any faster than a stroller’s pace.Re: peafowlAre you that boy from Rikki Tikki Tavi?
directed by the inimitable Chuck Jones.