Living Dangerously

No encouragement is needed for our kids to push boundaries a little, try new things. Whittling with knives, climbing trees high, exploring in the woods on their own, chopping wood. A little bit of guidance, usually in the form of a one time safety outline, and they have been good to take it from there. Building Big fires has been a part of this exploring.
The kids were thrilled to have built a combo- tipee set up inside of a log cabin. All their reading on outdoor survival has been coming in handy this summer. The result was a big and very hot fire. And some very thrilled kids.