Your memories and stories just such seeds for your children.
Ice cream holds a place of prominence on the August calendar
with day's dedicated to soft ice cream, ice cream pie and many more ice cream
treats.
In August have fun and tell stories about ice cream.
1. Talk about your
earliest memory of ice cream. Where were
you, who were you with and what flavour was it?
At our church picnics after the pies, tarts, and cookies were
devoured the minister and church elders put on oven mitts and passed out
vanilla ice cream in cones. The ice cream
came pre-cut and roll in cardboard they looked very much like the centre cardboard
of toilet tissue. I now know the oven
mitts were because of the dry ice the ice cream was packed in. At the time though we would make up the most
ridiculous stories about how the ice cream would be too hot to touch.
2. If you have ever made homemade ice cream describe this
event to your (grand)children. A fun and
easy activity that you can do with children is make ice cream in a bag. Beware that younger children will tire
quickly and you will end up agitating their bag at some point in the process.
3. Do you have a favourite ice cream parlour? If you do take your (grand)children there to
have this month’s discussions. Thereafter
when they drive past the parlor or visit it they will be reminded of you and
they may tell your story to their children.
If you do not have a favourite parlour find one together with your
children and start new memories.
August for many is the last month of the school break and
vacation.
4. Learning to ride a bike is often a summer break
activity. Remember back to that very
first time you stayed up right on a two wheel bike and tell this story. What type of a bike was it, what was the
colour, was it your bike or someone elses?
5. If you still ride a bike tell your children why and the
enjoyment you derive from riding a bike.
6. Did you ever take a biking trip somewhere?
7. Swimming is also a summer activity take the time to
remember back to a very early memory that included swimming and recount
this.
8. How did you learn to swim? Lessons at a pool or in a lake
or a pond?
9. If you do not swim
or have a fear of swimming, using age appropriate language explain why. In your story talk about what you would do
differently now to overcome your fear. By placing our fears in the light of day our
children will have a new understanding of our behaviour and be less likely to
develop the same fears.
10. If you engage in any other water sports tell your
childhood stories and share pictures if you have them.
Grandma Snyder
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