Walking Children in Nature

A Former Indoor Kid on the Joys of Yard Work

Not my feet. Photo by Nick Page on Unsplash

For the longest time, I thought I was an indoor kid. I would stay at my grandparents’ farm and instead of going out and getting muddy on the tractor with my grandfather like my little sister did, I would go to the library with my grandmother and check out an armload of books and as many VHS movies as humanly possible. What I didn’t realize…