Learning Takes Flight

Episode 7: Go Outside!

March 13, 2021 Megan Anderson Season 1 Episode 7
Learning Takes Flight
Episode 7: Go Outside!
Show Notes

Episode 7: Go Outside:



In this episode I share with you why children need to spend time outside, what it takes to be outside safely and happily, where to go and play and how to create a natural playscape of your own. 

I share my own experience as a parent of inadvertently allowing our child to take over our yard, dig holes, build a fort, climb old tree stumps, and how now, looking back, a perfect, manicured yard would not have allowed this and what a gift it was that he had this experience. 


I am asking you to dig deep and address your own fears or hang ups of allowing the children in your life to play freely outside and why risky play is so important. Children develop a lifetime of skills by being in contact with nature, working through social problems with their friends on their own, problem solving, overcoming small wounds and celebrating their own resiliency. 


There has been research connecting depression, behavioral problems, lack of self regulation skills and so much more in children in relation to a child’s lack of access to nature and time spent outside. 


Join me in exploring ways to make going outside something you don’t have to think twice about. 


Books to get you started:


Rusty Keeler: Adventures In Risky Play: What is Your Yes?


Richard Louv: Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature Deficit Disorder