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Raising children in the Country

Arriving in the middle of the countryside fresh from the city with a young family, it is fair to say that I had no idea what I start. I grew up in the city, the countryside was something you saw on TV if there was nothing on another channel. As an adult, I thought that the city is on my right, my natural home. You could spend a week in a holiday home somewhere green, and generally wet, but that was as far as it went. The campaign, my dear, is another place.

My husband and I spent 17 years working in London. With two young children and another on the way, I finally yielded to her plea and decided to move to the northeast coast of England. We followed the dream, but living the dream is not necessarily easy. For years, I found isolate. Living four kilometers from the nearest village was getting used to. Especially when my husband was back in his London office for weeks at a time. At dusk, the children asleep, I left the cottage whinstone and sandstone in a row that we farm workers cottages -- the other cottages are holiday homes and empty most of the year. I looked on pastures with grazing sheep and cattle, in the distance, a narrow gray-blue sea and a lighthouse on the rocky islands off the coast. I waited for the flashing beacon for bat for me to point out, melt, and then away. I told myself: "Ok, so what is it then?

It's a cliche but it's all true well - a happy mother makes a happy home, and I struggled to familiarize themselves with the world around me. The city girl has taken time to become a woman country. On very rare occasions we went out for dinner, the conversation in wheat prices, laminitis and agricultural subsidies of the European Union - Conversations that made you want to borrow a gun from the farmer who is in front of you and kill himself. While occupation of countries like hunting and shooting, I read with incomprehension or even outright hostility. As for footwear with pointed tip, with an attitude, there was mud too much for heels.

Only when I slowly started to develop friendships that I appreciate the country for what was and what she had to provide for my family. The village school had just over 40 children. Previous school my son in the city had over 400. These mothers were my way in the world around me, ready to offer their time and friendship. In the city, nobody drops for they are too busy, they assume you too busy and anyway they live too far. Here, the parent stock has dropped by or called coffee to say "And the beach?

In the UK, a letter signed by 300 academics, authors and experts in child care last year, warned that children's health is deteriorating because they lost the chance to play outside. They blamed the computer games, the anxieties of parents and academic pressures. My children are beautiful Heathered moors, fields and crops of barley swing for granted and I could afford to feel smug as they climbed trees, built dens in the jungle garden and ventured into the dunes on the beach. Instead of the Nintendo DS and X-box, body boards and balloons filled my son's life after school.

We do homework on the kitchen table of Infront Aga, a massive breeding range throws heat and made the world a better place to be a day of cold and wet November. Nature also became a teaching aid. I traded hands on interactive learning areas within the city's museums, for walks in the woods. We collected thorns, collected and made elderberry conkers cordial. Not that I could teach them the difference between a tree and next. I left that to my husband who suddenly turns out to be a man who knows where a sycamore and where ash. I must say - I still do not know the difference. Instead of identifying fire trucks and police cars, the boys spotted tractors and combine harvesters. My eldest told me he wanted to be a farmer when he grew up. He knows that this boy and this boy have farms. And this is another world where exploitation is transmitted from generation. In the life of this city, if you had the luck and the family home has not disappeared in payments in retirement homes, you could expect to leave your home combined with your children. (In Assuming they sell and use the revenue to fund a conservatory.) But in the country, it is expected that the farm will the children and, hopefully, one of them that it will work. As a newcomer, I wonder: "Will they want?" I had to break bad news my own son. We were not farmers. We were curious. I suggested it could be an astronaut to space and fly a tour of the stars of rockets is not a huge tractor wheels in the mud.

And the pain, but agriculture is like to work hard. A constant around the farm and plowing and harrowing, and planting and harvesting. But I do not see food as more than a simple fact of life. I see it as the culmination of dedication and business, children are also aware that what they eat is grown and spared. They drank raw milk and lived to tell the story, ate blackberry jam burned their mother. They know she sheared a sheep and gave him the worst cup hair of his life. They followed the hunt and have been to too many shows to count. Sometimes they talk about London and soldiers and the lives they left behind. They mostly say "No" when I say "Do you remember when we lived in the city?"

Author Bio
Judith O'Reilly was the education correspondent for The Sunday Times of London, where she also reported on politics and news, and worked undercover on education, social justice and criminal investigations. She is a producer of past policies in ITV Channel 4 News and BBC2's Newsnight. A freelance journalist, she started her blog, www.wifeinthenorth.com in 2006. She lives in England.

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