how kids get muscles by having fun

A guest post by Lucy Broughton

If you want to get muscles and you're a kid (or a grownup, that works too, if you have a long  doorway); if you want your kid to have muscles or if your kid wants to get muscles by not lifting weights, then your kid can climb up walls using feet and hands.

First, you put your hands on the wall and lift yourself up.
Second, you put your legs on the wall and lift your arm up to climb.

What I usually do is I lift myself up and put my legs on, then I lift my other arm up, then I lift my leg up, then I lift my other arm up and then my other leg, then I keep climbing up until I reach the top. I put a video here so you can watch it and see how I do it.

Hint: You can get down by sweat. Or, you can drop down, or you can climb down.


Climbing the Walls from Amber Broughton on Vimeo.


Oscar adds: 
And by getting muscles you can tuck your feet on the ground if you don't wear shoes. That's sometimes how you get strong.

And you can climb up this to get strong muscles.

learning list, fall 2015

About a month ago I asked Lucy if we could make a list of the things she thought she wanted to learn this year. At first she said no, she learned a lot of things last year so there was really nothing left that she wanted to learn, but when I asked her again about a week later she had no trouble coming up with this list:

Lucy wants to learn
1. How to tame snakes
2. Forest school
3. How to make paper
4. How to play guitar
5. How to cook a family dinner
6. How to do jump rope really good
7. How to dive on a diving board
8. Swimming lessons that help you go under water without goggles and swim really good
9. How to tame tigers
10. More books about Zeus and the Olympian gods. Why would Zeus marry Hera?
11. Learning more about hwo to use computers and websites
12. Learn about D-Day
13. Build model airplanes


There were a few things I wanted to add to the list, so I made my own list for Lucy.

Mommy wants Lucy to learn
1. Days of the week
2. Months of the year
3. How to tell time

Lucy is really into the idea of directing her own learning, so she thought that if I got to make a list for her then she should also be able to make a list for me.

Lucy wants Mommy to learn
1. How to not make lists for Lucy
2. You have to do jump rope (You haft to do janp rope)


Should be a fun year!

what Lucy wants to learn

How to play jump rope.
Ride on a skateboard.
Ride on a bicycle by yourself.
To fight (a Tyrannosaurus Rex).
That I can write a Tyrannosaurus Rex on paper. And a cow on paper, and an elephant, and a squirrel, and a chipmunk, and a bird, and a rhinoceros, and a hippopotamus.
How to juggle.
Put on jammies by myself.
Button buttons.
How to like pickles.
How to sew.
How to do this [she wiggles] with one of those [she points]. [Note: Learn to hula hoop.]
How to turn on lights with a switch.
How to save people.
How to build a treehouse.
And get some honey from pooh bear.
How to read a book by myself.


First thing: how to jump rope.

One last thing:

• How to tie a bow
• And decorate things
• And put on clothes on little dollies
• And tuck myself in by myself
• And put on costumes by myself.
• And put on clothes.
• And build towers with blocks.
• And play in the sand for my hands not to get dirty.