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Treasure hunt and scavenger hunts, Iphone style
A lot of times when I write my posts, I’m questioning myself why I’m writing how to play with children? I ask myself aren’t they suppose to create their own creations and games without us telling them what to do? Yes, that is the ultimate goal; we just have to give them the tools to do so. Sometimes the magic happens and sometimes they just do something completely different than you planed. Like yesterday, I gave them badminton to play with, and then they ask me for my Iphone because they wanted to play a game.
Outdoor lifestyle: writing and reading
Summer is here and we all have been warned about not letting our kids have a total break from reading and writing this summer. For us it is important to spend time outside and to try to incorporate writing and reading into our outdoor lifestyle. It simply does not have to conflict with each other.
Urban backyard camp-out
Last weekend my daughter had a sleepover with her best friend.She has known her since she was 6 months old, and they had their first sleepover when they where 2 years old. Since then they have had many sleepovers at each other's houses, but this weekend they had their first urban backyard campout on the second floor balcony of our house.
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Picking wild blueberries
There is nothing wrong with cultivated blueberries, but nothing beats the taste and color of blueberries picked wild in the bush. Living in colder climates has some benefits; we get to pick wild blueberries.
I still remember the days my parents took me blueberry picking as a child. Now I have come full circle and bring my children to Norway to the same low bush blueberries that I picked as a child. Just the other day on our vacation I was inspecting my 11-month-old daughter’s shirts as I half cringed, half celebrated the blueberry stains she made as she sat in the bush and picked berries and greedily stuffed them in her mouth.
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One of my first nature discoveries as a child was picking wildflowers. I played with them and brought them proudly to my parents. I was lucky to have parents and grandparents who taught me the names of the flowers and some of the myths that surrounded them. For me picking wildflowers is in many ways a symbol of a childhood in nature.
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