I was given a book for Christmas entitled ‘The Wild Places’ by Robert MacFarlane. He tackles the question ‘Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain?’ by embarking on a series of beautifully described journeys, spending nights out on cliff-tops and remote beaches, deep in snowy woods and ancient meadows, as well as bathing in icy rivers and waterfalls.
Like most boys of their age, our older two – at six and four – have a lurid love of a pseudo-scientific tale I tell them. It’s a tale that, in turn, some other adult told me as a child. About how a frog won’t jump out of a saucepan of water as it’s heated up, but will instead stay put, to boil alive. Unable to perceive the subtle temperature increases, the frog takes ‘sitting in the hot tub’ to its ultimate end. Gross. But the boys love it.
Recently I re-learned a valuable lesson in terms of the way we manage our children. I think it might be applicable to the Generous journey. See what you think.

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It started in one of those ‘what if…’ conversations between friends. What if the world wasn’t loaded in favour of a small minority of its people? What if we could look after the planet as well as looking after ourselves? What if a bunch of people tried to exploit the power of new technology to live a little more generously? Read more...
