Too often today,children are starving for real life and drowning in the midst of an empty one. The old-fashioned way seems to be the healthiest way to raise emotionally, intellectually, physically, and spiritually resilient children.

Children need to be outdoors. They need time to be bored. They need to be around books, have lots and lots of imaginative stories read to them, and then have time to act out the stories. They need lots of time with adults so that they can pattern their values and manners and relationships after mature people.

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