For all time and in all corners of our world, children have played with small bits of things, making their own toys from very simple materials. Even though we have gadgets and gizmos galore in our modern world and wealthy country, we can still do this:
Click the arrow to hear me read this poem to you.
This picture book about a young boy in an African village who builds his own toy vehicle out of wire scraps is a good story to recapture a sense of building something out of what may appear to be nothing.
If you are interested in allowing children to live out their complete childhoods, you may wish to read this article by Lenore Skenazy at the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood.
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