Due to it being half term I've spent time this week with friends and their children which I love. It seems like only yesterday that my Bertie was a little boy but as J.M. Barrie wrote 'Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older, and then before you know it, they're grown.'
Of course so many changes have taken place in the last twenty years that childhood is a different place to that which Bert grew up in. The Internet has changed society dramatically, children are hooked on social media and as one friend told me, her child will spend hours sending and receiving banal messages via his phone, not to mention computer games and Facebook. Children feel the need to keep up with their peers and we're all guilty of being spin doctors, posting our lives to show what fascinating things we're doing with wonderful people. The truth is, if we were engaged in such excitement, we would hardly have time to live in this viral world.
I spent a wonderful afternoon with a friend and her two children where we all became absorbed in the activity of carving pumpkins and cooking. Neither child became bored or distracted, in fact my friend rang me later to say how excited the children were to relay their days events to their dad.
Everyone enjoyed the afternoon, not least me. Childhood is so fleeting and I'm a firm believer in spending time with your children doing simple activities such as baking or painting, the only cost is precious time.
'Play is the highest form of research.'
- Albert Einstein
Love Donna, Mark and Ryan xxxxxxxxxxx :)
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