Tree climbing

Attitudes to certain types of boyhood activity have changed over the decades from when seeing things like shimming up drainpipes to climbing trees were seen as desirable masculine pursuits that tought you how to handle risks to todays very risk adverse that discourages such adventure.

I loved to try such things as wobbly on foot I was, seeing it as a challenge to be taken on, facing your fears as much as I would accept a hard hat would make sense if you were going well into the tress canopy with its risks of coming down fast living with the effects of a brain injury personally.

I feel overall that sense of adventure is better for boys than a more slower more bookwormish approach.