Nature
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Outdoor Play Ideas for Children Under Three
For most of human history, small children spent the bulk of their waking hours outside. The current arrangement — indoor floors, indoor air, indoor li...
Outdoor Play Ideas for Children Under Three
The under-three brain is wired for movement, sensation, and the kind of variability that an indoor floor simply does not provide. You don't need to pl...
Outdoor Family Activities for Different Ages
The bar for "enough outdoor time" with young children is lower than parents tend to think, and the activities are simpler. A 9-month-old strapped to y...
Why Nature Exposure Benefits Young Children
"Get them outside" sounds like the kind of advice that hides behind vagueness, but it's actually one of the better-evidenced things we can do for youn...
Walks as Shared Family Time
For all the activities that get marketed at families with young children — soft play, baby yoga, signing classes, weekend swim sessions, music groups...
Outdoor Time and Nature at Daycare: Why It Matters
Time outdoors is one of the few things in early childhood that produces almost universal benefit — to physical development, sleep, mood, attention, an...