{"id":13938,"date":"2025-07-16T09:18:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T16:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13938"},"modified":"2025-07-18T09:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T16:20:17","slug":"bring-back-tree-forts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/07\/16\/bring-back-tree-forts\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring Back Tree Forts!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/family\/archive\/2025\/07\/wild-free-play-children-mobility\/683482\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Atlantic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">LET YOUR KID CLIMB THAT TREE<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>It could actually make them safer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/author\/henry-abbott\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Henry Abbott<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.theatlantic.com\/thumbor\/w_iWeJ3s4qmphHhuxabHV4Rt5x8=\/0x0:1200x1500\/648x810\/media\/img\/2025\/07\/09\/2025_07_08_Let_Your_Kid_Climb_That_Tree\/original.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white image of a girl smiling as she hangs from a tree branch, with one foot propped against the tree's trunk. She wears sunglasses\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Hulton Archive \/ Getty<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A bunny, small enough to nestle in a cereal bowl, has recently started hanging out in my backyard. Now and again, it nibbles a plant or lies in the sun. Mostly, it explores the limits of movement, zooming, darting, feinting, and trundling through bushes. Once, I saw it corner so hard that it sprayed mulch in a giant, messy arc. A human kid who did that would almost certainly be called inside to clean up. But I haven\u2019t seen the adults in this bunny\u2019s life in weeks; the baby has carte blanche. If only more of the kids I know could be so lucky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wild animals are the best movers on the planet, and little ones spend much of their time frolicking, fighting, leaping, and climbing. From birth, human children share animals\u2019 potential for wild movement; left to their own devices, they would presumably tumble about like puppies. But more and more, they do nothing of the sort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/family\/archive\/2025\/07\/wild-free-play-children-mobility\/683482\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at The Atlantic<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Atlantic LET YOUR KID CLIMB THAT TREE It could actually make them safer. By\u00a0Henry Abbott A bunny, small enough to nestle in a cereal bowl, has recently started hanging out in my backyard. Now and again, it nibbles a plant or lies in the sun. Mostly, it explores the limits of movement, zooming, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}