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Your Letters: What’s the gibber-jabber?

In this day and age

I enjoyed reading “The Cottage is Boring!” (Aug ’23) and your tips for keeping kids engaged and loving the cottage. But I noticed reading was not among the activities listed. I have always cultivated a love of reading among my kids and now my grandkids. There is nothing like a great book to beat the boredom blues!—Kathy Larkins, Six Mile Lake, Ont.

The latest edition of really hit the target. “The Cottage is Boring!” took me and my brother back to our childhood—“summering” at the lake was wonderful with all of the magic of the island, the cottage, the river, and the activities. Our teen years were difficult,

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