HARD PHYSICAL WORK IS GOOD TRAINING
Although we would not want to return to a world in which people did backbreaking work for very little pay there is no doubt that hard work is good training.
For some people house work is tough but before a move is made to send someone in to 'help' them ie to do it for them, it is important to reflect and firstly wonder if could the task be made a little easier and secondly to ask oneself " is the fact that the person is struggling not just what young people look like when they are training?"
The same applies to gardening. Before hiring a gardener for news parents why not look at all the garden tools and aids that are available, from long handled trowels to kneeling stools and if a person does not have a garden there are still opportunities.
As part of social prescribing people with health problems but who can still work physically are being referred not to a psychiatric or rehabilitation clinic but to an environmental or conservation project which needs volunteers who can wield an axe or use a spade. This can be even better thanking to the gym because it is exercise with a social purpose.
Although we would not want to return to a world in which people did backbreaking work for very little pay there is no doubt that hard work is good training.
For some people house work is tough but before a move is made to send someone in to 'help' them ie to do it for them, it is important to reflect and firstly wonder if could the task be made a little easier and secondly to ask oneself " is the fact that the person is struggling not just what young people look like when they are training?"
The same applies to gardening. Before hiring a gardener for news parents why not look at all the garden tools and aids that are available, from long handled trowels to kneeling stools and if a person does not have a garden there are still opportunities.
As part of social prescribing people with health problems but who can still work physically are being referred not to a psychiatric or rehabilitation clinic but to an environmental or conservation project which needs volunteers who can wield an axe or use a spade. This can be even better thanking to the gym because it is exercise with a social purpose.