The Waterfall



Anna is a 12-year-old girl from Austria. She always had good grades in school and she also helped her mom almost every day with the housework. Her favorite hobby was riding the back of a horse and since she was a little girl she was always playing in their garden in front of their house. Anna also has got a little brother, his name is Dominik and he is annoying her a lot because she has to look very often after him. The family was eternally spending their evenings all together. One day the mother feels that something has changed but she wasn´t really sure what it was. She was thinking a long time until she found out what it was.
The two children didn´t talked anymore they were just in front of their smartphones all day. They didn´t meet their friends anymore and they also didn´t want to spend their free time outside practicing their hobbies. They didn´t even argued anymore. First she thought that the behavior of her kids just changed because they turned older now and that they just found new preferences to spend their free time. She tried to talk to her children about that but they didn´t even listened to her during she was talking because they were too much into their smartphones. After that when it was getting worse she decided that something has to change. She thought that Anna and Dominik have to see again how beautiful the nature is and that they are missing so much if they are sitting all day in front of their Smartphones. At first she tried to talk to them again. She told them how much they are missing their lives and that they will regret it one day if they are spending their free time like that. But all the talking didn´t helped. She had to find something else to make her children think about this. After a while she had a great idea. She has to show them how beautiful it can be outside without their phones. She decided to take the whole family for a hiking trip in the mountains. When she told their kids about her plan they weren’t really happy due to that. But after a while of persuade they came with her for that trip without their Telephones.

Because the mother was too afraid that the kids could change their minds, she decided to do the trip straight at the next morning. And so they did it. When they arrived there, the children weren’t very motivated and they wanted to go home again. After a while of walking the mood of Anna and Dominik were getting better and better and they really started to like the trip a lot. They admired the wonderful landscape and they were amazed of how silent and peaceful the nature could be. They didn´t even thought about their smartphones anymore. When they arrived at a waterfall the mother told her kids that she was spending almost every day in summer at this beautiful place. She also told the children a lot of different stories. The children were listening carefully and they spent the rest of the day playing next to the waterfall. They werer swimming and jumping into the lake of the waterfall and enjoying the day in the nature. They also planed to make similar trips every weekend.  After this amazing trip the children were very thankful that their mother woke them up from their “Smartphonedream”.


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