Halfway point of summer....

I know some people start summer holidays long before we do. My wife and kids basically start summer vacation at the beginning of July. I just realized that we just had our August long weekend and that pretty much marks the mid point of the summer.

So far my boys have been to Center Island, A day out with Thomas and a local beach and they have also been to various play places like Chuck E Cheese and a place called "Kidnetics". They have also been through a two week swimming lesson course, and Thomas is learning to play the keyboard.

When I was a kid it was go out and play. Sure we had vacation time but that was go to the cottage and go out and play. I am kind of in a dumbfounded state thinking of all the things my kids do just to keep them entertained over the summer. I really am beginning to think that maybe our youth these days are so apathetic towards everything is because we fail in letting them play creatively. We as parents are paranoid that someone will come along and snatch our child away from us. I think we fail to give our children credit with regards to their own intelligence. Children do as do adult have a built in fight or flight response. We as parents I believe have hindered that. We make our kids be nice to strangers and then we shield them from all the harms in the world. Thinking that one day we'll let them go and experience it. Yet when that time comes they rarely want to as they have "done" everything virtually through video games or the internet. They seem to have lost the idea of experiencing life.

I think I have some work to do with my boys...