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* Can you tolerate living in borrowed spaces but can’t tolerate being tied to public transit schedules? We could see new things, meet new people, and find adventure but still be in the comfort zone of our own culture and language. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. G.K. Chesterton, On Running After Ones Hat, 1908 (source) Chesterton reminds us that it’s ultimately our choice whether something is an inconvenience or an adventure.
Author Valerie Strauss describes what happens to our young children in this performance-focused kindergarten: They can think they are a failure even before they begin their school careers. * They work 37 hours per week then spend 80 additional hours per week on chores, childcare, and home responsibilities. * 11 percent say they’re afraid they’re not making lasting connections with their children. Do you get to go work on something you love, or do you have to go work to pay the bills to pay for stuff you don’t need?
By the time you subtract the demands of school, work, church, and organized activities for your kids - what’s left of your week for pure family time? It’s good for them to have musical activities, sports or other things organized and supervised by an adult. So as long as you can strike the right balance, your child could still reap the benefits of organized activities: Proclaim your intentions to the world with a shirt or hoodie featuring our well-loved rocket logo. We really haven’t seen ditched families engage with local communities as they travel, somehow finding and taking part in a local Little League, for example.
It’s the story of a novelist who writes a book and portrays his home town poorly. It gives a first-hand example of the true meaning of you can’t go home again: Changed as we are by what we’ve seen, it is now anathema to re-enter the culture we once claimed….our But as we made our way about town, eating meals we used to eat, driving streets that we used to drive, shopping at stores we used to shop at, I realized it wasn’t just that we didn’t want to buy a house and live there again. I tried to subtract 7 years off their face and see if I could recognize them.