I love being out with my nephews as they remind me of me.

When I turn up I think they see a kindred spirit or a least someone who still wants to explore and encourages them to ‘give it a go’. (It’s easy when I can give them back wet and muddy and take no responsibility for the aftermath!)

But a lot of the time we try to, like having energetic kids, the desire is often to ‘close it down’, to get some peace and quiet which no one can blame people with kids like my nephews.

And yet all to often we try to make others stop doing whats good for them because its not fitting in with how we want things to be.

And this all to often manifests into our adult lives from children, where all to often we feel we need to comply, to fit in, to say the right thing to be accepted or acknowledged –  and often it’s the best thing to do in civilised society especially if we don’t want to be ostracised from the groups we inhabit.

However it’s worth paying attention to the areas we feel we are trying to fit in and examine whether or not we are in the right groups that both nurture us and that we feel we are contributing to rather than being constrictive.

Get around people who make you grow rather than who want to control you.

And at the same time seek out those who are caged and help to set them free!