Return to Banta 3 (Learning from your mistakes)
Thrown in the Deep End One of the seminal events of kid life is learning to ride a bicycle. When you graduate from three wheels to two, suddenly you experience a new freedom through mobility and your world expands beyond the line of sight from your front porch. Supposedly the average age for learning to […]
Return to Banta 2 (Unsupervised)
In today’s world, children exist in a bubble. Practically everywhere they go and everything they do is supervised; if not a helicopter parent there is some adult within their line of sight tasked with watching over them. Rarely are kids trusted to travel even short distances alone now. Even the walk to the corner to […]
Return to Banta 1 (Bloomington, Indiana)
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man… well, not much really changed I guess. Before continuing North from Bean Blossom, I decided to take a brief day trip Southwest to Bloomington, Indiana. I’d not visited the […]