Lenore Skenazy

Some of them are playing with a ball and some of them were doing whatever.

And it's just so great.

I mean, it fills your heart as much as it's fulfilling for kids.

So that's one idea.

Free play Fridays.

Just, you know, use a list serve, use next door, use Facebook and say, how about we all send our kids to the park on Fridays and Fridays because it leads into the weekend and maybe they'll

do it again on their own for the rest of the weekend.

And the other thing is this one mom in California started what she called a friendship club.

And that was she found

Her son had like three or four friends in the neighborhood and she contacted them and she said, how about we form a friendship club, which in my day would have just been called normal life, where I mean, really, all of this stuff is just like, aren't we all just trying to recreate our childhoods?

But anyway, if my kid knocks on your door and your kid is free, you know, is is, you know, Cynthia home or is, you know, Oliver home?

Yes.

OK, then.

They come in, they don't have to organize a play date beforehand.

You're not going to see this as an imposition.

I'm not using you as a babysitter or maybe I am, but you can do the same with me.

And so then the kid has like three or four doors that he can knock on any time, you know, any time of day, I would say.

And

They can go play outside.

They can play in the lawn, the front lawn, the back lawn.