Loading ...Hope I didn’t misrepresent myself. I meant to say I’ve DONE almost all those things and LIVED them in the past in real life. As a child I had the good luck to live several years in a beautiful rural campground at Lake Tahoe where my dad was a park ranger…….and so I learned to love and appreciate nature and all that goes with it…….and I also had the bad luck to live some of my teenage years in Los Angeles…..so I was able to compare the two lifestyles and make an informed decision where and how I wanted to live my life and raise my children.
Now we still live the rural lifestyle but on the grid, and yes to satellite internet, and if someone pulls the plug on power I am confident we will be able to get by just fine as I have a backup system in place.
But, raising kids in an environment where parenting has been taken away from the parent has been a challenge, especially since peer pressure and the educational system has such a strong influence, so it has been an uphill battle all the way. The best I could do was to do as was done for me….and that is to expose them to the world I grew up in and also the world in which they must live and in which they must compete. Also instill in them the confidence to always do what they believe is right, and try to do it with kindness and consideration for others, and in good moral conscience.
As Farmboy says, it’s not been an easy row to hoe. LOL!!!