I don’t quite get using winter as an excuse to stay inside. Sure winter is cold, so you can’t just throw the door open and go outside in bare feet and whatever you happen to be wearing. And sometimes it takes awhile to get boots/jackets/mittens and whatever else everybody needs on and get out the door. We also never quite stay outside as long as when it is warmer either. But ultimately I love playing outside in the winter just as much as any other season. We go outside nearly everyday. And we don’t limit our excursions: this week we’ve gone sledding, played at a park, gone disc golfing, splashed in puddles, played basketball, shoveled snow.
In winter, the ground is covered in snow. Plants are bare or have lost all their color, there isn’t tons of people out and about. Winter is peace and rest. I would hate to stay inside and miss the sweet calm and solitude I feel when I got outside.
Liz Braithwaite 
I wish we had more snow because snow is so much fun. I don’t go outside as much in the winter as I do in the summer because it is more effort, but I still go outside. I don’t get why people don’t play at parks except for in the summer–as long as the slides aren’t wet, it’s much more pleasant to play on playground equipment when it isn’t so hot that it burns little legs.
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