Raising Outdoor Kids

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…

Using technology as a way to help kids connect with nature might seem counterintuitive. After all, aren’t we trying to get our technology-addicted kids outside to take a break from…

Getting outside during the winter months can be a struggle with children. There’s the initial challenge of convincing everyone that it’ll be fun. Then there’s the act of wrestling on everyone’s…

Winter Solstice marks the day with the fewest hours of daylight here in the Northern Hemisphere. It also heralds the beginning of winter. The solstice takes place when the North…

Christmas, a wonderful time of year that’s filled with long lists of things to do and gifts to buy. When Christmas finally does arrive many of us are left feeling…