“...to aim for their children to spend approximately the equivalent of about six full weeks outside each year.”
As soon as school was out for the year, Mom did two things - took Sis & I to get a ‘Pixie’ haircut because we’d be in the lake all Summer, and then she locked us out of the house until a few days before school started again that Fall.
You probably think I’m kidding...
She would feed us, and of course we were at her bidding if she needed us to shuck corn or any other help with the canning. Other than that we were pretty much, ‘Lord of the Flies’ all Summer.
“‘Lord of the Flies’”
I didn’t even tell anyone where I was going...just went.