S2:E10: Playing Outside in Generation X

Episode 10 September 13, 2019 00:26:02
S2:E10: Playing Outside in Generation X
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S2:E10: Playing Outside in Generation X

Sep 13 2019 | 00:26:02

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Show Notes

To salute the end of summer, w e are re-running a story from last season named "Big Mouse And Little Mouse" that has been updated, expanded and remastered.   This is a story about the type of imaginative play that occurs when kids are trying to discover the world.   This was play in world of the mid 70's, without screens (except the wood console one on the living room).  The events in this story are all real, and all took place on a single day that I recall vividly from our childhood.    The story take place in and around our childhood home as we used every inch of it to master our world  growing up in Generation X.

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