The fundamental mode of every child’s growth, learning and development is play. Here we do the pragmatic and utopian work of reimagining the earth as a vast playground, a garden of earthly delights, that we must cherish and nurture. How can we help children play and develop the “hundred languages” of childhood? How can we reignite a play culture throughout the different domains of society and make it part of the fundamental fabric of our lives?
Mary Holland, in her indispensable tome Naturally Curious, describes January as a month of endurance in the natural world. For parents who want to raise "wild children" ("wild" in the…
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…
We had our first winter snow storm this past Friday and I am eager to get outside and explore the transformed landscape with the children. The whole world is new…
September 2021 I am very excited to share that I am on the verge of a new vision for this blog/website/organization. I am in the process of shifting and reorganizing…
Collecting flowers, twigs and leaves and making pleasing, artful and beautiful arrangements out of them is a super fun activity and super easy to do. It also combines nature, art…