Raising Outdoor Kids

“Mom look at me!” shouts my daughter. I turn around to find her leaping from a rock. For a moment all I see are the wet slippery rocks and cold…

“Maman let’s go to the beach!”, exclaims my daughter. We’ve just had breakfast and a long list of household chores is looming before me. “Pleeeeeeease”, she begs, sensing my indecision.…

How to Raise Outdoor Kids Raising kids that love spending time outside and in nature isn’t an easy feat these days. With so many day-to-day commitments and distractions, time outside…

When my firstborn came into the world I was paranoid about dirt and germs. I was the mom that sterilized everything: soothers, teethers, toys, board books… You name it and…

Near our home there’s a forest that we enjoy exploring. At the end of a ravine there lies a fallen tree. It spans across the distance of the ravine, from…

Celebrate Valentine’s Day by sharing these heart shaped seed bombs with your loved ones and with the planet. Seed bombs are the perfect eco-friendly Valentine gift for kids to make and…

A generation or two ago all parents were raising outdoor kids. Kids congregated in forests, parks, streets and backyards to play for hours on end only to be called in…

There’s No Such Thing as Bad Weather is written by Linda Åkeson McGurk, a Swedish-born mother of two that lives in rural Indiana, USA. In Indiana, McGurk wondered why so few children…

Winter Carnival finds its roots in Mardi Gras, a Christian day of feasting before the somber season of Lent. Over time this single day of celebration has stretched into days…

1. Change Your Mindset. As soon as the temperature dips below freezing, there’s a flood of snarky comments and memes online. “I hate winter”, “I wasn’t made for winter”, “I don’t…