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Editor’s note: Thanks to Rustik magazine for this post on teaching kids about nature. It’s an important topic and needs to become more and more a part of our schools’ teaching. Elisa, a wiry 6-year-old sporting rubber boots and a pink...

New approaches to kindergarten offer a glimpse of what childhood used to be, and still could be -- if we're willing to think beyond the classroom walls. The original kindergarten—the children’s garden—conceived by German educator Friedrich...

  Photo by Vitalinka/Shutterstock. The original kindergarten—the children’s garden—conceived by German educator Friedrich Froebel in the 19th century, was a place where children learned through play, often in nature. That idea...

TEOTWAWKI Wife found this and wrote up a blurb to share. This is really pretty cool, and something that I wished I'd had as a kid. Makes you realize how sheltered and protective we our of kids these days...they are capable of a lot more than we give...

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