Here comes a confession….I’m a mom who doesn’t make rules on the playground. Yep, I’m one of those moms. However, that doesn’t mean I let my kids go crazy–if they will injury themselves or others I take action. I personally think playgrounds can be played with and on in various ways. Slides are meant to slide down, climb on, walk up, and even go backwards down on your belly. Kids can jump off things, crawl under things. Kids can even take off their shoes if they playground is in pea gravel. Have you ever walked in that stuff with flip flops? It is impossible. They can play with sticks. Dig up rocks, build rock castles, and whatever else they can imagine. When I visit a playground I tend to feel very out of place and so do my kids. Other parents are telling their kids not t0 climb up the slides and that they are only to be slide down. Or, they can’t jump off a platform, Or, they must keep their shoes on regardless if they keep getting full of rocks and they can barely walk. Or lastly, that they can’t pick up a stick or dig in the rocks. My kids look at me with eyes that say “can I do it even if they can’t?”
The thing I love about doing yoga with kids is that they can truly play with all the imagination they can muster without being imposed with rules or “cannots”. They can just be. They can explore. They can dream. They can become anything. They can freely move. But more importantly they can be 110% themselves.
Here are a few pictures of my kids doing spontaneous yoga.
