I was having a cosy afternoon curled up on the sofa with my son the other day, watching the Pixar film Up (which sounds idyllic, and it was – until I discovered the toddler was quietly drawing on a dining-room chair with a red pen).
The thing I love most about this film is its positive, uplifting, vibrant message, which reverberates through the entire 96 minutes: adventure is out there!
This is a message I attempt to instil in my children each and every day. Because adventure is fun. Adventure is exciting; it is creative and expansive and, what’s more, I believe it is so very necessary in life. We could all do with a little adventure now and then.
Pre-children, adventures off the beaten track were pretty easy to come by for me. In the 12 years that we had together BC (Before Children), my husband and I have
– in no particular order – backpacked around the world, upped sticks and moved down to Sydney, lived in various campervans for weeks on end, been paragliding, surfing, bungee jumping and caving (during which I actually thought I might die). We have been single-track mountain biking along a ridge halfway up a mountainside and rafted Grade 5 white water.
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