The Red, White, and Green

With all the PlayStations and Xboxes and Wiis and things that kids need nowadays to entertain themselves (don’t worry, I’m not about to break out in a rendition of “Kids“), it was really refreshing to see so many people enthusiastically enter a fort-building contest for the Where the Wild Things Are release tomorrow.

Photo: weloveyouso.com

Remember when all it took to make you happy was a couple of sticks and some old sheets? This photo, more than anything, reminds me that we really don’t need all the “stuff.” Maybe if more kids in this country were building forts instead of looking at Facebook, we wouldn’t have a nearly 20 percent childhood obesity rate.

Check out more of the amazing submissions on the We Love You So website.

–Jennifer Grayson 

Do this now: Got kids? Tell them to go play outside.

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