On the final afternoon of my family’s recent trip toScotland I had the opportunity to reflect on how much of a success it had beenand how many ‘firsts’ we have achieved. The first time the kids flew, the firsttime the kids and I rode a horse, the first time my son and I built dams on thebeach, the first time my daughter went down a waterslide, the first time my sonclimbed a ten metre climbing wall, and many more. Despite these firsts I’m surethere will be seconds and thirds of most if not all of these activities…butwhy? Because they enjoyed each of them so much! Yet teachers have been ridiculedfor making ‘fun’ and outcome of their lessons. “They [the kids]” we have beentold “are not here [at school] to have fun instead they are here to learn.” Yetare we missing an important trick?  Isn’tfun a catalyst for kids doing it again and again? Are the first experiences wegive kids in physical education as memorable and ‘new’ as the experiences mykids had in Scotland? Isn’t that what physical education should be about? Kids wanting to do it again…