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Could We Make Up For Lost Opportunity
To restore a generation’s health
This short story I believe, will be currently playing out more often than we might imagine, in countries all over the world.
Still, it’s worth a share, and who knows, parents may find themselves taking stock strategies that may help their children.
One of the things I love about my daily walks is the abundance of wildflowers I see. As we all know, where there are wildflowers, there is a veritable world of little creatures to be observed in and around them.
What made me sad today was coming across a mother, out stroller-walking, with her two children aged, I’m guessing, two and three years.
There was no family conversation, no drawing the children’s attention to anything new, the larger-than-life pine cones, for instance, that had been dislodged during the storm the previous night.
Now that would have been an interesting lesson!
I imagine none of them even noticed the nearby tree that had been struck by lightning.
Instead, the children were totally focused on their smartphones, and another electronic toy which I can’t name, and Mum was happily chatting to a friend on her phone.
