Summer is here and I have decided this year, I am going to put away all the modern technologies that my kids so very much enjoy, and give them a digital-age free summer. Meaning, we’re going to spend our entire summer days outdoors or doing other things indoors without any computers / electronics devices for entertainment.
This means:
No Computers
No Wii / PSP / Game systems
Limited TV for those family nights of movie watching and relaxing
And lots of outdoor fun and memories of a fun summer, fishing, catching fireflies, rolling around in the dirt and getting all sweaty and dirty and having a blast doing it.
These days kids have such demanding schedules and I think it's time to change that and relax over the summer like kids are supposed to do. When I think of summer, I think of the times I used to have as a kid, going over to friends' houses and walking to the local park for the day, playing till I just couldn't play anymore, roaming around in the weirdest places (I walked through the local drainage passages with friends for fun, I think we were chasing a cat or something?) Riding bikes around all day long, stopping for an ice cream and then taking off again, going to a lake and spending the day hiking and even diving in for the heck of it. That's what summer is about, playing until you're just so tired that day, and then doing it all again the next day, because it's fun.
That's my plan for this summer with the kids, along with getting back in shape while having all this fun!
