How to Share a Life of Outdoors Strenuosity With Your Son

[walk in the woods 888]

https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/how-to-share-a-life-of-outdoors-strenuosity-with-your-son/

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Finally, if you can take the boys and go for a season either to a camp of your own or to a well-organized and well-conducted camp for boys, go! The small investment will pay dividends many times over. In such camps there will be found especially fine opportunities for expression as well as impression. There is the sense of genuineness and freedom to be found there. There are the close camp friendships; there is the unusual stimulation of the imagination as a result of the close associations with the elements and with nature in general. There is the mystic power of the campfire. By the open fire is the place to plant deep in the heart of the boy the finest of ideals! There is the constant demand for ingenuity and resourcefulness. There is the unlimited opportunity for the constructive expression of ancient savagery. Camping for boys is an experience – you owe it to your boy and to yourself to get more of it.

 

[JoeBob 606]

OMG!

"Today everything is so different. Unquestionably one of the great problems of the modern day is the tendency toward soft living; too much heat; too much dress-up clothes; soft, highly seasoned food to tease the appetite. The curse of modern city life for all of us is softness; soft lights; soft easy chairs, soft music, and a passive type of entertainment."

 

Ponder the import of those words for a moment.

Before I reveal to you that they were written in 1923...

 

Further:

1. Teach nothing indoors that can be learned out-of-doors.
2. Teach nothing from books that can be learned from nature.
3. Teach nothing from dead nature which can be observed on the living.
4. Nature is to be the schoolroom and the schoolbook, unless insuperable difficulties prevent.
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Thanks for the link @walk in the woods