This is one of my favorite writing by John Muir.

Last week I read about this book and as the father of three very creative boys I decided I’d give it a try. A lot of the things we’ve already done and others look like the boys will learn another thing or two.

Last night it hailed for about 5 minutes. In Southern California this is a rare event and we went out and played in the pea sized hail. I believe this was the only activity in the book where we needed mother natures cooperation and I had already written that off as something we’d never get to. Now it’s the first thing we took care of.

Fifty Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do)