Articles: children

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Love Bugs: Why We Need to Love Insects

Remember when bugs used to be all the rage? This fascination  is something that we need to re-gain as a society and instill in the next generation.…

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5 Activities for Summer Vacation Fun

School’s out for summer! Fill the lull between beach trips and camp with some of our favorite kid-friendly activities for summer vacation fun. From sunrise to sunset, there’s…

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How to Walk Like a Fox and See in the Dark

The fun doesn’t have to end when the sun goes down. There is a whole other world to explore when night settles in. In Chris Salisbury’s book Wild…

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What If Schools Nurtured Imagination?

Imagination is central to empathy, to creating better lives, to envisioning and then enacting a positive future. Yet imagination is also demonstrably in decline at precisely the…

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Toxic Food, Sick Kids, and the Limits of Medicine: The Perfect Storm

Why is it that approximately 40% of children now have a food allergy? Is the industrial & toxic food system to blame or modern medical practices? Perhaps…

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