Friday: Exercise Ideas

Can you think of any better exercise than farming?  Our poor kids don’t get the opportunity to take part in such rigorous hard work.  Sometimes I wish we lived on a farm, just to teach my kids some good life working skills.   

And then came the opportunity!   Just west of us, our church owns 3000 acres, where they grow wheat, corn, and hay (I think).  On Saturday morning (it was a little rainy), but we got our medical gloves (we don’t have gardening gloves, but we have lots of medical gloves) and our rain jackets and headed over there.

For two hours we piled sage brush for burning, and moved rocks.  There was kids from 1 years old, to probably 80 years old there helping.  Even a wheel chair bound guy came.  There was something for everyone to do.  And it was HARD WORK.  I can run 12 miles and feel great, but bending over and throwing sticks made me exhausted.  The kids did great though. They never complained once. In fact they had so much fun doing it, they weren’t even asking to go home.

What can we do in regular old suburbia to teach us the skills of rural life?  I suggest:

• Let your kids help with yard work, no matter how old they are.
• Clean up your parks nad neighborhoods!!
• help an elderly neighbor maintain their yard.
• Walk more often than drive places.
• Watch Little House on The Prarie  

When kids work hard, they feel good about themselves!

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