How to have fun
The snow's arrived at last! And what snow - crisp, white, and plenty of it!
We feel to have waited a long time for this - real snow that is dry enough, hangs around long enough and in sufficient quantities to look gorgeous, and be great for playing in. As the papers say, this is the UK's biggest snowfall for 18 years. What a way to push the credit crunch cares of the world aside!
Travelling back from a meeting yesterday, I passed our son's school and saw him and all his fellow pupils playing in the snow on the school field. They were building snowmen, throwing snowballs and squealing with delight.
Later, when walking to collect our children, I passed a young boy walking home with his Gran, who asked her if he could make a snow angel. She said 'yes' and he promptly lay down on the pavement and waggled his arms and feet up and down in joy.
How fantastic that we have moments when, if we're willing, we can just drop everything and have fun! How great that the school had the inclination to let the children get huge pleasure from the snow rather than cooping them inside to stay warm and dry. How kindly of the Gran to go along with her grandson's immediate need to cast normality aside and just have fun in the snow!
Children have a great capacity for living in the moment and enjoying what comes along. This week's snow, and the caring adults around them, have allowed them real opportunities to get the most out of life.
We can learn a lot from our children. Why not start today?
Well, what are you waiting for? Go and make that snow angel!
We feel to have waited a long time for this - real snow that is dry enough, hangs around long enough and in sufficient quantities to look gorgeous, and be great for playing in. As the papers say, this is the UK's biggest snowfall for 18 years. What a way to push the credit crunch cares of the world aside!
Travelling back from a meeting yesterday, I passed our son's school and saw him and all his fellow pupils playing in the snow on the school field. They were building snowmen, throwing snowballs and squealing with delight.
Later, when walking to collect our children, I passed a young boy walking home with his Gran, who asked her if he could make a snow angel. She said 'yes' and he promptly lay down on the pavement and waggled his arms and feet up and down in joy.
How fantastic that we have moments when, if we're willing, we can just drop everything and have fun! How great that the school had the inclination to let the children get huge pleasure from the snow rather than cooping them inside to stay warm and dry. How kindly of the Gran to go along with her grandson's immediate need to cast normality aside and just have fun in the snow!
Children have a great capacity for living in the moment and enjoying what comes along. This week's snow, and the caring adults around them, have allowed them real opportunities to get the most out of life.
We can learn a lot from our children. Why not start today?
Well, what are you waiting for? Go and make that snow angel!
posted by Elizabeth Juffs at 1:05 PM
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