Children love access to scrap pine, hammers, nails, and other tools. It would be ideal to have a few acres outside for play—with bushes to make camps under. A kitchen for real cooking is an attraction too. However, the location does not have to be ideal. It is wonderful to be able to provide such truly good things as space, order, and inviting materials both in and out of doors. But if there is no outdoors space, then an indoor hall imaginatively used is better than nothing. Once again the quality of adult relationships with the child or teenager is the most vital factor. This relationship
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