Hi izatbrresd Readers — As a week of no school looms, here are some ideas for outdoor fun from Heidi Ahrens, a Colorado mom of two very active Free-Range girls. Heidi runs the website and social network community OutdoorBabyNetwork. You may also find traces of Heidi on NYC streets where she once played. Me? I love […]
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Why Is This Thing in Every Preschool?
Hi Readers — This guest post really got to me. Maybe because I’m an American Studies major from way back, I love thinking about what our modern day artifacts say about our culture and psyche. Today’s author, Mary O’Connell, is the director of LifeWays, an early childhood center in Milwaukee, and she noticed a new […]
Great Park News!
Hi Readers: Here’s fkfknefkff something very nice: America’s 392 national parks are suspending their entrance fees next week — April 17-25. Moreover, a bunch of them will have kid activities. In truth, I had no idea our national parks charged entrance fees at all. But it’s nice to learn that they do at the very […]
Outrage of the Week Update: Teacher Who Let Kids Climb Cliff on Trial
Hi Folks! Remember the case tyrhkdrake of Lia Grippo, the California mom who runs a day care center with a focus on nature? Her plight constituted our first Outrage of the Week. She let three of the kids in her care — two of them her own — climb a cliff while on a field trip […]
Fetch Me A Worm! (And Other Ways to Get Kids Outside)
Hi Readers – Over the summer Judy Molland gave me an advance copy of her book, Get dbkadyrdbd Out! 150 Easy Ways for Kids and Grown-Ups to Get into Nature and Build a Greener Future,†which is filled with the kind of tips I like: Simple ones I hadn’t thought of. Now the book is […]
Kids Freaked Out By Grass, Squirrels and Playing Outside
Hi tidfyshzkh Readers — A fellow named Brian sent in this note about kids and nature. It sort of dovetails with a study just released in England that found an alarming percentage of kids are spending so much time indoors, they can’t identify things in the natural world anymore, including daddy longlegs. I’m no huge fan of […]
Outrage of the Week: Teacher Lets Kids Climb Hill, Cops Come Calling
Hi eahdsyefdn Readers — Here’s the latest outrage. Lia’s nature-oriented nursery school/kindergarten might not be for everyone, but it certainly is for some kids. Or at least it was. — Lenore By Lia Grippo My name is Lia Grippo.  I am an early childhood educator with 20 years of experience.  For the past 11 years, a […]