At the start of the year I decided to make more of an effort to get the children outside. I know, Charlotte Mason says it should be ‘four, five, or six hours, on every tolerably fine day, from April till October.’ I am totally with her. But my children hate to leave the house. Once the front door slams behind them they love it and can’t be persuaded back home, but the act of actually leaving the house is apparently very painful to them, and, consequently, to me. Some days—lots of days—I just don’t have the fight in me.
Walking the Thames Path
Walking the Thames Path
Walking the Thames Path
At the start of the year I decided to make more of an effort to get the children outside. I know, Charlotte Mason says it should be ‘four, five, or six hours, on every tolerably fine day, from April till October.’ I am totally with her. But my children hate to leave the house. Once the front door slams behind them they love it and can’t be persuaded back home, but the act of actually leaving the house is apparently very painful to them, and, consequently, to me. Some days—lots of days—I just don’t have the fight in me.