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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...

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Play

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...

5 min read

Family Life

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...

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Family Life

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...

7 min read

Family Life

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...

11 min read

Daycare

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...

10 min read