Kids on the prairies don’t make a lot of snowmen. When our parents see us packing a snowball, laying it in the snow and beginning to roll … they waddle across the yard in the their snow pants and slap that puppy right out of our mitted hands.

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You have probably heard how in the further far north the Eskimos do not even teach their kids how to swim. The story goes that it would be cruel. If they fall through the ice, the water is so cold that they would just prolong the inevitable. I won’t even point out the flaws in this story, those being that first of all where in the further frozen northland would these people be able to learn to swim and second of all if this is a time honoured tradition what chance would a parent have of teaching their child to swim on account of their parents did not teach them to swim? Thirdly, does that mean that Social Services comes to take away all the children who know how to swim because clearly their parents do not love them? The parents knew how to swim so their parents taught them and so therefore abuse does run in the family and I should get a Noble Peace Prize or something for drawing such important and leaping conclusions but alas (I like to put the back of my hand to my forehead for this part) we don’t have time for this.