The Best Gifts Don’t Cost Much

[This is a guest post from Alison Kerr.]

The best gifts in life don’t cost much. Here is my list of gifts to give your kids during the next year.

G: Gardening – every kid needs to see food growing, and to pick food straight from the garden.
I: Integration – a sense of community. Shop locally, get to the know the neighbors, volunteer with your kids.
F: Fishing and Foraging – kids love to find their own wild food.
T: Tools – teach self-reliance with simple hand-powered tools.
S: Self-esteem, Self-defense and Survival – basic skills in self-defense and survival grow self-esteem and safety.

The best gifts don’t cost much. They take love, thought, and time rather than plastic.

[Alison is an American from Scotland who lives in Eastern Kansas with her two teens, two cats, and her cowboy-hat-toting husband. She plants vegetables, eats home-made soup and freshly baked bread, gives hugs to her family, hikes Kansas prairie fields in the heat of summer, cools off in creeks, admires rocks and trees, watches birds, reads books, and invites nature into her garden. She encourages you to love nature, learn about gardening, and aim for sustainability through her writing at Loving Nature's Garden.]

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