Check out the Winter Activity Guide from the great folks at Nature Rocks. Click here to download the free PDF. You’ll find plenty of ideas to keep kids and kids-at-heart busy this weekend.
As always, it doesn’t matter what you do — just get outside and play!
Check out Mother Nature as she starts to change from winter to spring. She’s always got something new and exciting up her sleeve.
I love to share resources, so when I stumbled across this find I decided it deserved a wee post.
BAM! Radio has a slew of interviews on iTunes for free download. Author and host, Rae Pica interviews a variety of experts, including Dr. Stuart Brown and Dr. Howard Chudacoff.
There are 38 podcasts, lasting between 8-12 minutes each. A perfect tidbit to listen to on the go!
Topics include:
Giving Your Child the Power to Choose
Dangerous Parents, Safer Kids
Why Rough & Tumble Play is a Really Good Thing
The Importance of Being a Playful Teacher
Whether you are a parent, educator, or merely interested in child development, there is something on BAM! for everyone.
I have written on education reform multiple times. It is no secret that I am not a fan of the current American education system, the decrease in free time for children, excessive homework, and the fast track that many parents are putting their children on.
I am really excited to see the upcoming documentary, Race to Nowhere. I hope the medium of film will help raise America’s consciousness, since nothing else to date seems to have spurred any kind of serious cry for reform or given people pause to the adulteration of childhood that is acceptable in today’s society.
Here are a few of my related posts that you might find interesting:
Childhood comes but once, and it short and should be filled with magic and the love of learning. I hope we as a society can take steps to move the pendulum back in that direction.
