http://ecochildsplay.com/2007/11/20/four-hiking-activities-for-your-children/ Green and Natural Parenting for Eco-Friendly Families Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:34:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://ecochildsplay.com/2007/11/20/four-hiking-activities-for-your-children/#comment-24048 Noe Weinheimer Sun, 17 Jul 2011 06:12:29 +0000 http://ecochildsplay.com/2007/11/20/four-hiking-activities-for-your-children/#comment-24048 Hey there! I just noticed your site: Four Hiking Activities For Your Children when I was browsing delicious.com. It looks as though someone liked your site so much they decided to bookmark it. I'll unquestionably be coming back here more often. Hey there! I just noticed your site: Four Hiking Activities For Your Children when I was browsing delicious.com. It looks as though someone liked your site so much they decided to bookmark it. I’ll unquestionably be coming back here more often.

]]> http://ecochildsplay.com/2007/11/20/four-hiking-activities-for-your-children/#comment-1626 Experiential Education is About the Experience : Eco Child’s Play Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:00:59 +0000 http://ecochildsplay.com/2007/11/20/four-hiking-activities-for-your-children/#comment-1626 [...] not. The more difficult choice — and the more rewarding one — is to send your children outside and then let your kids be kids. They tend to be pretty good at that. Let them — [...] [...] not. The more difficult choice — and the more rewarding one — is to send your children outside and then let your kids be kids. They tend to be pretty good at that. Let them — [...]

]]> http://ecochildsplay.com/2007/11/20/four-hiking-activities-for-your-children/#comment-1625 Jennifer Lance Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:07:09 +0000 http://ecochildsplay.com/2007/11/20/four-hiking-activities-for-your-children/#comment-1625 Tahirih, I think it is a great idea to use the outdoors to help children with autism, although I don't have any experience in this field. From what I have read, the sensory experiences of the outdoors are not as overwhelming to children with ASD, as other more human-caused sensory experiences, such as eye contact and touch, are to these children. I wrote about ADHD and nature deficit disorder for my very first Green Options post: http://jenniferlance.greenoptions.com/2007/04/11/green-family-values-leave-no-child-inside/ You may find some useful links in the article. Tahirih,
I think it is a great idea to use the outdoors to help children with autism, although I don’t have any experience in this field. From what I have read, the sensory experiences of the outdoors are not as overwhelming to children with ASD, as other more human-caused sensory experiences, such as eye contact and touch, are to these children. I wrote about ADHD and nature deficit disorder for my very first Green Options post:
http://jenniferlance.greenoptions.com/2007/04/11/green-family-values-leave-no-child-inside/
You may find some useful links in the article.

]]> http://ecochildsplay.com/2007/11/20/four-hiking-activities-for-your-children/#comment-1624 Tahirih Bushey Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:57:15 +0000 http://ecochildsplay.com/2007/11/20/four-hiking-activities-for-your-children/#comment-1624 I enjoy your blog. This one got me thinking less about my personal life, though and more about my professional one. I have noticed that as soon as I walk outdoors with many young children who have autism, they brighten. They look happier. Parents report that their children love the outdoors. I would like to create a set of "Nature Trail" games for my web site that would allow these children to both interact with nature and communicate in some new ways with their parents but this is hard. Many of the children are apt to run away and have no fear of danger which makes their parents wary of wide open places. Other children are so engrossed by everything they see that their parents seem not to exist--which does not make outdoors quite the right intervention environment for teaching communication skills--which is what I facilitate. Anyway, reading this post makes me want to take on this challenge because I bet it could be done. I enjoy your blog. This one got me thinking less about my personal life, though and more about my professional one. I have noticed that as soon as I walk outdoors with many young children who have autism, they brighten. They look happier. Parents report that their children love the outdoors. I would like to create a set of “Nature Trail” games for my web site that would allow these children to both interact with nature and communicate in some new ways with their parents but this is hard. Many of the children are apt to run away and have no fear of danger which makes their parents wary of wide open places. Other children are so engrossed by everything they see that their parents seem not to exist–which does not make outdoors quite the right intervention environment for teaching communication skills–which is what I facilitate. Anyway, reading this post makes me want to take on this challenge because I bet it could be done.

]]> http://ecochildsplay.com/2007/11/20/four-hiking-activities-for-your-children/#comment-1623 Matt Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:23:34 +0000 http://ecochildsplay.com/2007/11/20/four-hiking-activities-for-your-children/#comment-1623 Why would parents hate the "picking up trash" idea? Why would parents hate the “picking up trash” idea?

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