Getting the little ones out and about..

[Dogface]

This story is interesting - remember when a stick and a stream made a good playtime? I do! That's the essential call of bushcraft, I reckon... we're still doing the same thing but now we're older and it has a fancy name..

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/11/15/scotland.nursery.reut/index.html


Regards,

Nick.

 

[Big John]

I don't think you'll get much of an argument around here!!

 

[stovie]

I spent a small packet on my son's Tank Party, where they had a great time doing this for nowt..... :AR15firin

 

[Klenchblaize]

Great to see Ms. Bache bucking the trend in wrapping our next generation in cotton wool. I do though wonder what her insurance premium is or perhaps parents are more than happy to sign-up to some suitably worded limited liability clause.

Cheers

 

[leon-b]

i heard about this last week and it sounds a great idea
leon

 

[woodwalker]

remember when a stick and a stream made a good playtime?

Still is

woodwalker

 

[JonnyP]

Fantastic, love it, and wish The Secret Garden, all the best......
Think its great that in this day and age, where parents wrap up their kids in cotton wool, someone is doing something like that. I hope it is successful and the idea spreads.....

 

[hanzo]

Ahhh, the childhood memories, or small kid time as we say here in Hawaii as we reminisce about the fun we had playing outside.

My wife and I formed a small outdoor childrens' group of five year old kids (my older daughter's age). Ther younger siblings also participate. I supplied them all with a bright yellow backpack and filled it with kit. They are the best equipped five year olds I know.

Then we talk to them about safety.

And take them out. They have gone on numerous hikes and to the beach very often. They will be going on their first camp out next weekend.

My kids at our favorite beach:



Feeding the ducks and geese on our last hike:



Following the pied piper?



Feeding some fishies:

 

[chrisanson]

A brilliant idea .getting kids involved in the natural world about them. If there had been a nursery like that about when my kids were kids I would have sent them! As it is they didn’t go until they had to go to school.
chris

 

[meatmaster]

Well done to the lass.
The primary school where my daughters attend have a "forest school" once a week, with tree planting, fireside stories & general outdoor play once a week, they love it!

 

[Jon]

Same idea from a nursery in Salisbury, Wiltshire. Posted on British Blades site last week.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/13/nnursery13.xml

It would be nice to see this trend growing.

 

[bent-stick]

Glad to see a bit of common sense coming back into play.

The local gestapo^H^H^H^H^H^H social services department wouldn't re-license my wife as a childminder because we wouldn't put locks on the food cupboard doors and rebuld the house in foam rubber.

To all the people involved... :You_Rock_

 

[Tengu]

Which is fine if you can drag them away from the consumer durables