Would you pay for your kids to play in the mud?
We have a festival running here at the moment.
On the weekend, in a local park, a non-profit organisation set up something they were calling Mud World. Essentially it was just a huge tarp and a big pile of dirt. Add water and hey presto, you have - mud. Throw in a length of black plastic and you have a slide.
There were sessions of three hours a piece. Adult supervision was required, one adult to every two children and it cost $25 per child, per session.
It was covered on TV and the kids all appeared to be having a ton of fun. Their dads also seemed to enjoying it, probably even more than the kids. LOL
I guess with housing estates being built on such small blocks of land these days there isn't room in any backyard to do this sort of thing anymore, not like when we were kids and bits of plastic and a hose made a free slide. Mud was free as well. LOL
Pretty much all the things on offer at this festival are being run by various charities and that's a good thing, no problem there, but would you be willing to pay $25 so your kids could play in the mud?
All I can say is this saddens me to think we have come to this very unnatural way of playing when that was just the way it was back in the day, went and played in the creek or river and kids acted like kids