Quick post on why walking is wonderful. Worth a few minutes to read. :) I feel that my children (and myself!) are at our best, our most creative, our most curious, our most inspired, after we’ve spent time outside, moving, breathing, walking, working!
Making this work in the suburbs Archives
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Since moving from the suburbs, I haven’t written as much about how to make unschooling work there, but it is still very important to me. I vividly remember the extra creativity required to make it work in an environment that wasn’t quite as “natural” as the woods we now live in. Here are a few random…
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“Any parent who has punished a child by taking away TV privileges and then watched that child play–slowly at first, then imaginatively, freely–will recognize the connection between time, boredom, and creativity. ‘There’s something about television–maybe that it provides so much in the way of audio and visual stimulations that children don’t have to generate very…
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If you live in an urban or suburban area, you may ache for more nature and natural experiences for your children. (My children at Crown Hill Park and Wildlife Sanctuary, tucked away amongst a neighborhood just outside of Denver.) Many cities and urban areas have set aside nature preserves and acreage to remain natural, and…
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Yosemite Range of Light from Shawn Reeder on Vimeo.
Things like this thrill me. Especially living in the suburbs, I am grateful for the talent of others that can transport us to another place, to touch the thrill of nature, if only for a moment.
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There’s a path behind our neighborhood. Like many neighborhood paths these days, it cuts through land that’s been scraped for development, and nothing too natural is left. It’s a nice little path, but there’s so much construction right now that it’s littered with chunks of cement and random wooden posts and wire. Plus, right now,…
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This summer, I wanted to make one of the giant water bubbles I saw floating around on Pinterest. They looked so fun. And it was fun, albeit much more complicated than Pinterest would have me believe. My circumstances made it more complicated that in normally would have been. We’re in a rental home at the…
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