A little city vignette, that really happened: A middle-class private school in Southern California, population about ten zillion in 1,000 square miles of city, where the "rivers" are freeways and the hardscape is asphalt. It was raining, one of those neat So Cal rains where the drops are big, generous, and continuous, and the temps are in the 60s.
Some wonderful teacher or principal had let a bunch of kids take their shoes off in the middle of the day and go romp and run and stomp and cavort to their hearts' content in the rain. A bunch of, I'd say about 9-year-old boys and girls in their blue-white uniforms, no shoes, having a blast.
It was pretty neat to see.
That is a GREAT story. I could almost hear the kids laughing as I read it.
Imagine...letting kids be kids!