I like to pretend I’m Jane Goodall, except with squirrels instead of chimpanzees.
This is so adorable and also part of what being a kid is. You mimic grownups as a kid, fueled by whatever you saw in a book or a movie/documentary that moved you and made you passionate about something. You always find a way to do it, you don’t just give up and say ‘oh, I could never be that, there’s no chimpanzees on my woods’. You just make it work with what little you have laying around and fill in the blanks with your imagination, creativeness and ingenuity.
And it’s this lovely thing I try to remind myself of everyday when I teach - give them the fuel and the confidence to fill in the blanks and they’ll do wonders.
