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Absolutely delighted to have Emily from Abundant Life Children guest posting this week, sharing her thoughts on how to create an outdoor area that allows for real quality learning. Practical Tips for Making Outdoor Learning a Reality I am one of those “outdoor education” types: championing the child’s right to be muddy, cheering unstructured time in nature, encouraging adventure, and supporting efforts to unplug. Yet, despite my utopian idea of young children busily building forts or…

(Image Link)Our sense of smell contributes so much more to our life experiences than we know, and even though we're more likely to remember a foul stench than a good smell during our days we often remember key points by smell.And that's why we have so many smell memories associated with childhood- those are our formulative years, when everything is new and smells good and bad are a memorable sensory discovery.(Image Link)Who could forget how that box of crayons smelled when you opened it, or…

I was in Walmart the other day and noticed how bad their freshwater aquariums are. There were dead fish and excess fish food in every aquarium.