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What is so great about "being outdoors"? Will parents EVER stop yapping about it?

Posted - March 12, 2017

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  • 3191
    Growing up, we weren't tethered to our parents via cell phones.  Once in a while we needed a nudge to get out there, but not often.  "Outdoors" was freedom.  
      March 12, 2017 5:07 PM MDT
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  • Freedom? Maybe. But also gnats, mosquitos, and horseflies. 
      March 12, 2017 5:12 PM MDT
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  • 3191
    And swimming holes, trails, forts, hills and a bucketful of other things.
      March 12, 2017 5:14 PM MDT
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  • Swimming holes, one may drown.  Trails, one may be bitten by a snake. Forts, I prefer farts.  Hills, life is already a struggle. Buckets o' things, might be poisonous.
      March 12, 2017 5:18 PM MDT
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  • 3191
    Rope swings and motorcycles (no helmets), war games and sledding.  Yee Haw!
      March 12, 2017 5:35 PM MDT
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  • Indoors. Pizza and scifi movies.
      March 12, 2017 5:45 PM MDT
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  • 3191
    Outdoors.  Freedom and beyond...!
      March 12, 2017 5:57 PM MDT
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  • Parents work hard to give their kids a home and all the stuff that is inside it like TV, the refrigerator and delivered pizza.  To not stay inside and enjoy these things is to show disrespect and to not be appreciative.
      March 12, 2017 7:22 PM MDT
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  • 3191
    To deny the pure awesomeness of "outdoors" is to dis God, Mother Nature or serendipity...depening upon your belief...regardless, that is something created by something greater than you or I...

    I am amazed.
      March 12, 2017 7:45 PM MDT
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  • A dis is sometimes needed.  Mosquitos, poison ivy, gnats, pure awesomeness!
      March 12, 2017 7:54 PM MDT
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  • 3191
    Well I can certainly see why your parents may have prodded you to go outside...I would wish you a good day, but I haven't time for doom and gloom this morning.
      March 13, 2017 12:35 AM MDT
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  • My parents wished me beset by mosquitos and gnats?  God's blood!  I offered no doom or gloom... reality.
      March 13, 2017 8:27 AM MDT
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  • 3191
    The reality is that there is more good than bad in the outoors.

    JMHO
      March 13, 2017 8:32 AM MDT
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  • True.  But I have never encountered a pizza tree or a snack bush.  I have heard rumor of a lake of mead. I'd like to check that out.
      March 13, 2017 8:38 AM MDT
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  • 3191
    Lots of snack bushes and even snack trees outdoors.  :)
      March 13, 2017 9:06 AM MDT
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  • Ah,yea true. Berries and all sure.
      March 13, 2017 9:14 AM MDT
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  • 32527
    Reminds me of when my daughter was little staying with grandparents. My brother got all mad told our Mom she needed watch the kids better. My daughter had his kids out there "eating weeds"  It was honeysuckles. Lol
      March 13, 2017 9:20 AM MDT
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  • 3191
    Bingo!
      March 13, 2017 9:24 AM MDT
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  • 22891
    it probably gives them a break from their kids
      March 12, 2017 5:29 PM MDT
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  • 1713
    My parents never prodded me to go outside, in fact they thought I spent too much time out there and I was always so grubby when I came back in.
      March 12, 2017 7:13 PM MDT
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