Today I found this image and it made me think. In the photo you see three children waving from the top of a tree with a message. Memories of a girl have come to mind, when my brother and I were leaving with our summer neighbors in the forest and riding cabins and climbing trees.
We fell, yes, we scratched, blood, wounds but nothing happened, a little hydrogen peroxide, a band of smurfs and to climb back and invent stories. The children of today, the majority, hardly think of going out into a forest and it is the parents who should encourage children contact nature and play in it without any need for external toys.
Seeing this image we can all raise awareness in fostering contact with nature, encouraging them to climb trees and play in them, help them build cabins, look for old sheets at home to make tents, give them old plastic plates and cups to that their kitchens are mounted ... (also teaching them that the environment must be left clean afterwards).
In the NurtureStore photo, an English message appears that says:
Climb a tree, Take a risk, Work as a team, Be adventurous, Trust yourself, Play outdoors, Know your limits, Make friends
I also leave you a poem that I have taken from "Poems of the Soul", written by Alejandro José Diaz Valero.
A very dangerous game also worth remembering when in leafy trees we went up the mountain to climb. All the memory springs in a clear way when we climbed to the cup climbing from branch to branch. If the trunk was very thick, the way was sought with a partner of ours who served as a ladder. Climbing to the last branch no longer scared us, we watched the panorama while eating fruits. Sometimes, not being prudent, there was an occasional fracture, when we accidentally fell like a ripe fruit. Climbing a guava stick was a challenge of a large proportion, whether it was loquat, tamarind orange, mango or mammon. Time of that childhood of dangerous climbs gave us his teachings to climb in life.
