tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-560315115459677991.post7652667163199224649..comments2023-09-24T03:50:16.119-07:00Comments on Life's Simple Pleasures: Overprotected Kids Go "Wild"Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10901253574307836440noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-560315115459677991.post-7866484412386499772014-05-31T19:52:12.960-07:002014-05-31T19:52:12.960-07:00Thanks for your comment, Beate. You're right,...Thanks for your comment, Beate. You're right, everyone does always think the past is better. That's human nature, I guess. But I love the positive feel of your comment. You're right....this is their reality and they will hopefully love their adventures just as we loved ours. Audreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10901253574307836440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-560315115459677991.post-49766884708313681812014-05-31T19:47:02.585-07:002014-05-31T19:47:02.585-07:00I know, Kay, he does look like he's singing fo...I know, Kay, he does look like he's singing for us, doesn't he? In my head, he is. Ha ha! I love Harry. :-) Audreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10901253574307836440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-560315115459677991.post-31785202635973760642014-05-31T19:46:13.425-07:002014-05-31T19:46:13.425-07:00I should've known you were a crawdad girl, Deb...I should've known you were a crawdad girl, Deb!!! All the great girls are. :-) Audreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10901253574307836440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-560315115459677991.post-4840565185513888152014-05-31T19:45:18.670-07:002014-05-31T19:45:18.670-07:00"My refuge from the world". I love that..."My refuge from the world". I love that, Keith! And it did feel like the woods was our place, separate from the adults. My kids probably don't have a place they could say that about. Audreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10901253574307836440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-560315115459677991.post-43482781448089107792014-05-31T07:22:57.848-07:002014-05-31T07:22:57.848-07:00Just like you and my fellow commenters I grew up i...Just like you and my fellow commenters I grew up in the woods playing with my neighbors' kids all day long. Oh all the games we played and all the wonderful things we experienced. Back then already there were news about horrible things that could happen to kids playing that way, but I think it wasn't all over media back then so parents didn't put so much focus on it. Nowadays media is full of how we have to protect our kids, so much that we start believing they are only safe with us - and they probably are. That makes me incredibly sad. I want my kids to be able to play just like I did. But then - looking back everybody always thinks the past was better than things are now :) I strongly believe you did the absolute right thing - you compromised, you found a way to give your girls what you want them to have, and it doesn't matter if it's comparable to what we had. It only matters how much they loved it, and they surely did cause they look so happy in these pictures :) What a wonderful thing to do to take them to the woods to let them explore - they'll learn to love those adventures just as much as we loved ours! And they will learn the same things from it that we learned :)Beatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14712395242968990000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-560315115459677991.post-39675111520683045572014-05-31T04:02:18.805-07:002014-05-31T04:02:18.805-07:00I only had one child so you can imagine that I kno...I only had one child so you can imagine that I know where you are coming from! Good for you for letting your kids have some freedom and like Deb above, I bet they know they lucky they are to have a Mom who has a special name for cardinals!!<br />(And Harry looks like he is singing just for you, proud of you for letting your girls run wild and free!)Kay G.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07228498846814735537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-560315115459677991.post-34086317746302124222014-05-27T15:38:30.730-07:002014-05-27T15:38:30.730-07:00I just love this post, Audrey. Your photos, the st...I just love this post, Audrey. Your photos, the story, your sweet little girls. I laughed just imagining the looks on their faces when you told them to go and do whatever they wanted!<br /><br />I grew up just like you - we rode our bikes all over the place, we fished for crawdad's in the irrigation ditch down the road, basically did whatever we wanted until our mom called us in for dinner. Carrie NEVER had the luxury! It really is sad that they miss out on that freedom, but things are so different now in so many ways. Your girls are lucky to have a nature-loving-mama to encourage them to take walks like this. I hope you'll do more of these walks over the summer months. And share them here, of course! xoDeb @ PaperTurtlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00957816023851249171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-560315115459677991.post-54095995072365450522014-05-25T05:09:01.953-07:002014-05-25T05:09:01.953-07:00Audrey I think what you did was wonderful. You can...Audrey I think what you did was wonderful. You can really see the joy on their faces. They look so inquisitive and you can tell they love exploring. Like you, I was allowed to run free in the woods all day while I was little as well. I loved it. It was my refuge from the world :) and it felt like home. But you're right, these days it just seems different. Probably because we see so many things on TV and in the news and it makes us not want to let our kids out of our sight. But I think you found a good compromise - accompanying them therre :)Optimistic Existentialisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11507986337866049924noreply@blogger.com