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Life was great 40 years ago when kids knew nothing about sex - or was it?(News)

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From: Cape Times (South Africa)
Date: 20080509
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'THERE is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats," said Ratty in Kenneth Grahame's Wind In The Willows.

That's a sentiment I have to share having spent an idyllic four day Workers' Day weekend mucking about in boats at Vermaaklikheid, on the Duiwenhoks River. More importantly, the kids ran wild in an Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons kind of way.

We had seven kids there, ranging in age from nine to 15, in a relatively isolated house on the banks of the river, with no mains electricity, no computers, no television sets, ...

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