Every negotiation skill was used to get him up the hill.

Then, he looked left as he saw what most might miss.

A wonderland. The most magnificent ‘softplay’, only harder, better and natural.

For the next 10 to 20 minutes I followed as all the benefits of outdoor play became vivid.

2 thoughts:

  1. Softplays – I can’t help but thing they epitomize everything that wrong with play. And our disconnect with the natural world.
  2. Adults. The failures may seem bigger, the wonderlands may be further away, the decisions may appear bigger, the problems my seem harder but I am sure the benefits are the same for anyone. Perhaps just more obvious in your 2 year old son.

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