Good! More snow for us!
It is amazing how many people still believe that viral infections, colds and influenza, are caused by exposure to cool temperatures.
well, I suppose that explains why the Brits don’t have an Empire any longer...
Oh, it’s British parents. Figures...
In my day, Canadian moms put razor sharp blades on their kids feet and shoved them outdoors to find a frozen pond. If the kids were boys, they gave them a stick with a sharp bend at the end, and a half pound of hard rubber. They told the boys to hit that rubber as hard as they could with the stick, in the general direction of other boys — and to knock down, or punch out any other boys, who got in their way.
Snow was for building forts and snowballs. If you had enough of it piled up nearby, you could tunnel in it, until the whole works collapsed on you. If you had a hill nearby, you sled down it, with anything that came to hand. Just remember to roll off, just before the big tree.
When you had frostbite on all your extremities, you could come in and get a scalding-hot cup of cocoa.
The long, long winters of the Boston area...my sons would have eaten me alive if I was like this. : )
Don’t eat the yellow snow!
***because they may slip on ice or be bruised by a tightly-packed snowball. ***
Bruised? When we were kids in NM we fought serious snow ball fights! The kids we were fighting started putting rocks in their snowballs, we fought back by putting cactus in ours!
The British USED to be Lions, striding over the world.
They’ve turned, in two generations, from Lions. . . .to hamsters. . . a nation of eunuch sheeple. . .
The more time a kid spends outside playing, especially in the dirt, the healthy they are. Period.
Son #2 had the name of Pigpen when he was little after the Peanuts comic strip character and for much the same reason. I’d have him scrubbed and dressed to go out and he would be filthy by the time I got him from the house to the car. He loved to lay in the dirt and play with his toy cars and construction equipment. But, he was rarely sick. Even now, if he says he’s not feeling well, which rarely happens, he’s really sick (he just turned 31).
I don’t know what’s wrong with people today. The more exposure kids have to dirt and things, the better off they are.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger!
We usually played touch but with deep snow we played tackle football. Snow time was fun time for me and my friends. Tunnels, forts, snowball fights, getting cold and frozen then coming home to moms warm dinner and warm house