Where Have All The Kids Gone? - It’s Kite Flying Season

I may just be feeling a bit of nostalgia, but, I can remember as a kid growing up, my friends, my brothers, and I couldn’t wait for the months of March and April. We would always get new kites to fly around Lake Michigan.



Nowadays it seems kids don’t even play outside. It kind of bums me out because if you’ve checked out any kites these days they are built in a much better manner. No more plastic kites made out of your local grocers plastic bags. Kites now are made of nylon or many different materials like canvas; sort of the same material that tarps are made of, which I’m sure gives the kite more durability and probably and overall better flight experience.



I can recall flying kites for hours on end. I’d let my kite’s string extend totally off the reel, as if it could soar with airplanes above the clouds. The one I favored most of all had a bald eagle print, but I was saddened when a huge gust of wind helped it meet its demise.


Kites in those days had creative prints, but the wooden sticks construction was not thought thru in the case of crash scenarios, making for a quick end to a kite season in some instances.



So parents here’s my plea, as spring arrives initiate some outdoor activities with the little spuds. Take it to an open air area with as few trees as possible, and enjoy how technology, mixed with the creative mind, has developed a much more pleasurable kite flying experience.