Games and activities are a great way to teach the principles. Play a scavenger hunt where kids look for “bad habits” like litter or trampled plants. Create a role-playing game where they practice solving Leave No Trace problems. For example, ask, “What should we do with this candy wrap...
Granik clearly has no wish to turn Leave No Trace into a schmaltzy tale of Will versus the state in a battle for his daughter’s care. This isn’t that movie at all. Indeed, the social worker (Dana Millican) assigned to their case is sympathetic to their situation, despite the obvious...
struggling to answer the 100s of questions put to him, is helped by a social worker who walks him through it. “Leave No Trace” is filled with quiet moments like this, and yet it avoids being self-consciously “heartwarming.” People are cruel sometimes, yes, but sometimes they are kin...
My kids have noticed my fear in public.“Why are you looking all around Mum?” they asked. “You can't be too careful,” I said.“Every single person around us is hiding one of cellphone cameras.They are glad to catch somebody doing something stupid or embarrassing.Then they'll put it...
"And when we get home, if your shoes are still in the TV room, I’m throwing them out. Same for books. No more shit house. No more lazy, ungrateful kids. "And so on and so on through the black velvet sky and across the Hershey bar roads. On into the house with a slap or ...
I can only imagine how exciting it must’ve been for you to attend the Sundance premiere of “Leave No Trace.” It was my first time watching the film on the big screen. I was so nervous! But we had a really amazing driver. Right before the premiere, he took us on a drive around...
Talia even made a ginger-bread “Mandala” cake which everyone loved and the kids (and Jan) ended up with blue tongues from the icing. I had a nice nap in the sun after lunch, nothing whatsoever to do with the several glasses of bubbly before during and after lunch! Later in the day...
No place better that Okinawa! If I could take my grandkids I would be there tommorrow!Mata! 14 Feb 2023 Jim Colston Went to Clark AFB right out of Tech School in 1970. Then was transferred to Kadena in 1970 - 1971. Worked in 18th Field Maintenance Squadron / R & R Shop. Saw my ...
An hour or so later I was hanging out at this field with my friends and in the distance, I saw a group of about 20 other kids coming onto the field, all on bikes. I saw that leading them was the guy. Instantly my stomach dropped as I realized he was going to jump me (...
You and your neighbor have been at odds for years over the state of his front yard. You can't stand how it looks and are convinced that he is a complete slob. Meanwhile, the neighbor believes that one of your kids is tearing up his yard. One day, in the middle of yet another...