Playing through the greenery and litter of a mini forest's undergrowth for just one month may be enough to change a child's immune system, according to an experiment in Finland.
I get sad when I see daycare/school yards full of concrete, asphalt and sand. My kindergarten had huge trees, grass, moss, bushes, boulders etc… on top of all the swings, carouselles and slides.
Just having some shrubs that a kid can crawl into will give the kids hours and hours worth of entertainment. We used to arrange the barnches in a way that there were tunnels inside the bushes and a “big” empty area in the middle.
I’m sure crawling in there made changes to my system but the biggest plus for me was just the playing. I was never on the basketball court or the ice hockey rink. I was always climbing the trees or doing shenanigans in the bushes.
Ha ha we had a forest with this enormous boulder (left there by the ice retreating like 100.000 years ago) like 8 meters tall and cracked in two so there was this grotty part between the two pieces. So fun climbing, we were there like whenever we had a chance to.
No deaths only maybe a broken bone every other year or so :-p.
I get sad when I see daycare/school yards full of concrete, asphalt and sand. My kindergarten had huge trees, grass, moss, bushes, boulders etc… on top of all the swings, carouselles and slides.
Just having some shrubs that a kid can crawl into will give the kids hours and hours worth of entertainment. We used to arrange the barnches in a way that there were tunnels inside the bushes and a “big” empty area in the middle.
I’m sure crawling in there made changes to my system but the biggest plus for me was just the playing. I was never on the basketball court or the ice hockey rink. I was always climbing the trees or doing shenanigans in the bushes.
Ha ha we had a forest with this enormous boulder (left there by the ice retreating like 100.000 years ago) like 8 meters tall and cracked in two so there was this grotty part between the two pieces. So fun climbing, we were there like whenever we had a chance to.
No deaths only maybe a broken bone every other year or so :-p.