»The children all clambered up a tree, swinging and shouting. Michaela laughed. “We let them climb up, and we don’t help them down. They just find their way. It’s how they learn to become independent.” A scoreboard lights up in my mind: Germany, 1: British health and safety culture, 0. After her first day, Elsa boasted that she’d been using “a hammer and a big knife to chop wood”, and when I collected her on the second day the children were all poking twigs into a campfire, faces daubed with ash. It was kid heaven.«
Posted on: Sat, 03 Aug 2013 12:46:18 +0000