Children & Leisure Activities

The advert on television, for a certain kind of bread, showing a delivery boy pushing his bicycle up a steep cobbled lane, with a background of slightly melancholic music, conjures a nostalgic sepia-coloured picture of where and how, but for a chance of time, we might imagine our own childhoods.

Changing days and generations make their ways down the years, and there are those who will say “we had it hard, not like the kids of today”, as in all likelihood, they were told by the generation before, as they themselves were, by the generation before that.

The important issue to grasp is that the childhood years of between say, 5 and eighteen, are the oh so important formative time when the body will grow as the body will, but the nature and character of the forming personality are on a once in a life-time journey, which for them is an experience without Continue reading →