Village Squire, 1979-07, Page 4Saving
your
sanity
It's the Year of the Child and that means that you shouldn't
cream Johnny with his own baseball bat or Tock Brenda in the
closet and leave her there for 24 hours just because they are
getting on your nen es this summer.
Not resorting to these desperate means can take some
ingenuity however. You can go out and buy them expensive new
toys which will keep them occupied for about one afternoon at a
cost of about $5.95 a hour. Or you can take them on a trip to
Disneyland which will make sure that you won't have enough
money to get in trouble yourself for the rest of the year
[providing you can get there in the first place with the U.S. gas
shortages].
Or you can seek out some local, inexpensive places to take the
kids that will provide stimulation for both mind and body and not
make huge demands on the pocket book.
With the latter solution in mind, Village Squire magazine
explored some inexpensive places for harried parents to take
bored children. They range in cost from completely free to less
than a dollar for children. In many cases there's an element of
education as Y. ell as an element of fun.
Here's to }our sanity parents.
Living
educ a tion
A tug boat sits in Goderich harbour with the beach and
playground in the background.
The variety of things to do and see in and around Goderich in
the summer gives plenty of scope for imagination.
Two of the most common and educational stops on a tour of
Goderich are at the Huron County Pioneer Museum and at the
Huron Historic Jail. Both are inexpensive and informative. The
Museum will be open daily until Oct. 31, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.ni. on
weekdays and 1-4:30 p.m. on Sundays. The Jail is open from 10
a.m. to 5 p.m. until September.
Either or both of these can be included in a tour of the
Goderich harbour area. But the harbour area itself can provide a
few hours of fun and education and it's absolutely free. Goderich
provides one of the only commercial harbours in the Western
Ontario area. It provides the only opportunity to see the huge
lake freighters and seafaring vessels that are capable or causing
an intake of breath at their sheer size and stir vague feelings of
adventure.
2 Village Squire, July 1979