When my brother and I were about 5 and 4 years old we really didn't play in the snow for hours and hours. Mom worked shift work at a Nestle's factory. On weekends she cleaned the house. My brother and I dusted. One day she wanted to mop the floors. She told us to go outside and play. She bundled us up and we went out. We came back inside a few minutes later...tracking in snow. She said go out. We did and came back in a few minutes later. She said go out. That time she locked the door. Guess what? We learned how to play in the snow and couldn't wait to go out in it.
Today, they probably would charge her with child abuse.
Thanks for the smile this morning. I do recall that it could take longer to bundle up a four or five year old to go out in the snow than the length of time that they were happy to stay out there.
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I think a LOT of things our parents did....innocent things....would be considered abuse, by lefty standards, today.
MAKING kids go outside and play???? The horror!! CPS visit, for you!