If yours is a family who loves to spend time outdoors, chances are you’ll be in the water from time to time. Our boys’ favorite days are the ones spent by a creek, lake, river, or pool. There are rocks to skip, fish to catch, diving boards to jump off of.
But as much fun [...]
1. Go on a picnic.
2. Stage a relay race.
3. Find a creek and catch crawfish or minnows.
4. Hunt for snakes or frogs in your garden.
5. Climb a tree.
6. Read a book under a tree.
7. Pick vegetables in the garden.
8. Take a hike.
9. Pick wildflowers and share them [...]
Today is Haiku Day in the WordCount Blogathon. Bloggers across the Internet are posting in the form of haiku today. Fun, fun! As you might remember from elementary school, a haiku is a poem focused on one thought that is expressed in 17 syllables (five syllables in the first line, seven in the second line, [...]
On the remaining Fridays of the WordCount Blogathon, I’m republishing popular posts from the past. This one originally appeared in October 2009.
We parents knew that spending time outside did something positive for our kids (besides making them take a better nap). And now a new study shows that people who spend more time in [...]
As I write about gardening and outdoor topics (for this blog and for other publications), I’m always interested in reading what others have to say about these subjects. And it’s no surprise that there are a ton of good blogs focused on gardening and exploring the outdoors with kids. Here are six good ones to [...]
My boys love to go for a walk in the woods, or just around the corner. And they have the most fun when we bring along a brown paper bag for each of them with a list of things to find and put in the bag. If you want to organize your own nature hike, [...]
This Saturday, May 22, has been declared “Take Your Children to the Park … and Leave Them There” Day by Lenore Skenazy, a mom and author of Free-Range Kids and owner of the blog of the same name. In the name of encouraging creativity and activity, Skenazy encourages parents of school-age children to let their [...]
For the remaining Fridays in the WordCount Blogathon, I’m republishing some popular posts from the past. This one originally appeared in September 2009.
Our Big Boy was sent home early from preschool one day last week. He wasn’t sick. He wasn’t biting other kids. He just couldn’t stop scratching. He’d clawed his arms and legs to [...]
