Inspiration and Ideas

We have found three interesting articles & ideas that we felt worth sharing in this newsletter:

- The Over Protected Kid
A preoccupation with safety has stripped childhood of independence, risk taking, and discovery—without making it safer. A new kind of playground points to a better solution - by Hanna Rosin

- Currents in Environmental Education: Mapping a Complex and Evolving
Pedagogical Field

- Yes Lets
Have you played this game recently? Like all games its an opportunity to practice skills we face in our day to day lives.  Yes Lets…..is about seeing the gifts being offered and choosing to accept and celebrate the shared gift….Nature is amazing at this game and just recently in a group of educationalists it was shared how a gift of nature had come about from our recent extreme weather patterns.  The gift was a rare gathering of life from our ocean floor that arrived on the foreshore, this experience was accepted by the local community as an ‘Yes Lets’ opportunity to learn about seas eco-system as they gathered via texting and phone calls to view. 
The question to be asked is how often are gifts offered and we fail to listen, or see them as we are too busy ‘doing learning about nature’ rather than being within our natural environment. 
How often do our children share with us their ‘Yes Lets’ moments and as educationalists we either are unable to hear or are too busy for it to be relevant to the educational learning of ‘our’ moment?
So your opportunity today is to find as many moments as possible to say “Yes Lets”… and see what may unfold…  Have Fun!

*for more information…..Google ‘Yes Lets’ ……