Try This At Home

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Don’t try this at home

With all of the advice we were given when growing up it looked like our parents were not understanding us. At least it felt that way. In retrospect, my parents, predominanly my mother, did not watch us all day. Not at all. I cycled 20 kilometers away from home when I was 8, we made fire in the house, mixed cleaning chemicals till we almost fainted, we shot fireworks flares from the inside of the house up through the chimney back into space. All this without anything happening to us. That is apart from the punishment of my mother afterwards, as she smells the ignited powder of the flares, the chemicals or found the crown-caps under the carpet.

Try this at home

Nowadays kids are raised by parents that could be writers of your insurance policy. Don’t do this and don’t do that.But educating or raising children is to learn from your mistakes. You learn to walk by falling and standing up again. Keep on trying, make mistakes, hurt yourself and do it right the next time.But the atmosphere is not constructive the last decades. However, in order to build up antibodies you have to get sick first. No shame. That should be the lesson in the Corona times: let your kids play at home, especially now they cannot go outside. Give them the freedom to play and try stuff, just to test what happens. Try this at home.

Black print on white shirt with v-neck (185 g/m2)