Living Large In Our Little House

The Little Bungalow where I grew up

I had a won­der­ful child­hood in the sense that I grew up in a time when kids still had to actu­ally go out­side in order to have real fun. The free­dom I was allowed as a child to explore and cre­ate new adven­tures partly led us to our adven­ture here at Our Little House.

The fact that so many of my friends and rel­a­tives chil­dren have posted that they’re “bored” as their sta­tus on their Facebook pages just made me sad this sum­mer. And this  arti­cle in The Kansas City Star this week, by our own Living Large com­mu­nity mem­ber, Kathleen Winn, has had me reflect­ing on my own mag­i­cal sum­mer child­hood mem­o­ries and how child­hood has changed so dras­ti­cally in just a lit­tle over a generation.

My sum­mers con­sisted of:

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