Children in Nature January 2019
Children in Nature January 2019 We have been hit with our first ice storm here in Southern New England and I am eager to get outside and explore the transformed…
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January 24, 2019
Children, and human beings in general, are profoundly alienated from the natural world: from the animals, plants, trees, mushrooms, water, soil, air, fire and natural rhythms and processes of this good earth. But this does not have to be the case, nor is it fundamentally, or irrevocably so. In this section I will give a quick synopsis of some of the things that are going on in the natural world in New England, and other parts of the Earth, explore fundamental dimensions of our relationship with the earth, and share some of the many things we can do with children outside. In this way we can reconnect with the wellsprings of this fundamentally generous, beautiful and good earth.
Children in Nature December
Winter is dark and the earth is hard. There always seems to be a question, will we be able to make it through the hard times of winter. “Darkness…
December 19, 2018
Children in Nature November
The last crickets have stopped chirping. There is a startling, almost unsettling, shift and rapid change which happens in November in New England that always takes me by surprise. Whereas…
December 10, 2018
Children In Nature October
I am really excited about diving into all the great nature/outdoor stuff that we can do in the month of October with children. The October Full Moon is on October…
November 19, 2018
Children in Nature September
Richard Louv has argued persuasively in Last Child in the Woods and the Nature Principle that children in particular, and modern urban and suburban society in general, suffers from a…
October 10, 2018