These days, most playgrounds are super-safe and rusty-tool-free, which is good, I guess. But I also think kids need to be able to scramble around and fall down and have "adventures" when they can. Happily, I think our backyard is turning out to be a private adventure playground for my son--and possibly his more rough-and-tumble friends.
As my son gets older, he's starting to really love backyard playtime. In fact, today he ran right to the back door as soon as I suggested it. And why wouldn't he love it? There are rocks and pebbles to collect, stairs to climb, sticks to swing, buckets of dirt to dig in, plants to smell and hills to scramble up (and occasionally fall down). And, of course, chickens!
Yesterday, my son made his way around the yard while I tried to clear our some weeds so I can plant the awesome wildflower seeds my sister gave me for Christmas. It was really fun to watch him explore, and when he's just a little bit older we'll be able to spend even more time out there digging, playing and learning. I can't wait.
I need to drag my son outback more often. I used to always worry about him getting hurt, but now I realize that getting hurt is a normal part of boyhood. This year we'll try to have our son be a bigger part of our backyard farming!
Your kid was having fun playing on your yard, he's so cute :D
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I mainly enjoyed hammering nails into wood and bashing my fingers...and that was at preschool actually.
The adventure playground was at Hampstead Heath and, as I recall, was sort of like a junk yard you could play in...