Category: Knowledge and Understanding of the World
Gardening – It’s Like Watching Water Boil, But More Exciting
| May 10, 2013 | Posted by Luschka under 3 - 4 years, By Age, Discovering Nature, Food, Home Education, Incidental Learning, Knowledge and Understanding of the World, Raising Conscious Children |
I’m so glad I decided to plant the sunflower seeds the same day as the tomato plants, because for days and days nothing happened. We opened the growing thingy each day to find nothing, except one random weed that popped it’s head out. I was beginning to think the Heinz Grow Your Own tomato plants…
Getting Into Gardening
| May 5, 2013 | Posted by Luschka under 1 - 2, 3 - 4 years, By Age, Discovering Nature, Home Education, Incidental Learning, Knowledge and Understanding of the World, Playful Parenting, Projects, Raising Conscious Children |
For the last two years, I have had the worst luck with my garden. What pregnancy didn’t take out of me, sickness and a newborn did, and then, to top it off it rained so much last year that even my mint died. Do you have any idea how hard it is to kill mint?…
Free And Almost Free Resources For Outdoor Activities In The UK
| March 8, 2013 | Posted by Luschka under 2 - 3 years, 3 - 4 years, By Age, Discovering Nature, Home Education, Incidental Learning, Knowledge and Understanding of the World, Reading and Resources |
I know in this weather I’d much rather be snuggled up under a sofa reading a book than stomping around cold and damp countryside with a baby and toddler in tow – or more realistically, chasing down a toddler while the baby and I try to keep up. Unfortunately, however, my children aren’t game for…
How To: Make Bird Feeders For The Garden
| May 17, 2012 | Posted by Luschka under 2 - 3 years, Discovering Nature, Home Education, Incidental Learning, Knowledge and Understanding of the World |
It’s spring time and while the weather is horrible and Ameli is young, I see no reason why not to get her as involved in nature as possible. We have a garden which is pretty small and currently overgrown, but pretty full of animals – if by animals you’ll accept squirrels, a variety of birds…
4 Lasting Ways To Celebrate Earth Day
| April 22, 2012 | Posted by Luschka under Current Events, Knowledge and Understanding of the World, Raising Conscious Children, Sponsored |
It’s Earth Day today, and while many people might not even realise it, millions of others around the world will be participating in Earth Day activities. In past years we’ve done things like black outs, where everyone is encouraged to turn off their lights for an hour in the evening, or meet at a local…
Autumn in England
| September 24, 2011 | Posted by Luschka under Discovering Nature, Home Education, Incidental Learning, Knowledge and Understanding of the World, Raising Conscious Children |
There are many things about life and living in the UK that it seems, even after eight years, that I will just never get on board with. There are things that make me realise painfully, that this is not home. (Home isn’t home any more either, but at least it’s familiar.) But there is something…
Author: Martin
To me, there are few places on this earth that so blatantly represent the very worst of naked consumerism than the modern toy store. Now I’m not talking about the family-run shop selling wooden toys and play things – those few that still survive, anyway. I’m talking about the gleaming multi-coloured superstores with huge in-store displays whose sole intention is to drive kids into such a state of excitement that parents are only too happy to part with large wads of cash if only for the sake of their sanity.
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