Jenny created Special Home Educator as a forum for sharing her adventures in homeschooling and connecting with other homeschooling families. Jenny is a homeschooling mom to four children.
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Please enjoy the following guest post by Jenny Wise on safe ways to get your kids active in nature. Jenny created Special Home Educator as a forum for sharing her adventures in homeschooling and connecting with other homeschooling families. Jenny is a homeschooling mom to four children. To a small child, the great outdoors is a place filled with wonder and awe. From the wind blowing through the trees to finding treasures in the dirt, children are naturally drawn to the natural world. Plus, playing outside boosts your child’s mental, physical and emotional health. Parents strive to give their kids experiences with the natural world, but often need to find safe, secure ways to do so. Here are a few tips to help encourage and support your child as they explore the outdoors.
I have known many sorrows, most of which never happened. - Mark Twain Why we limit our possibilities
I bet if we kept score of the wrongs that have actually been done to us versus the wrongs we have imagined, the latter would win by a landslide for almost all of us. That would be a terribly important statistic regarding our relationships, wouldn’t it?
Our brains are hardwired to look for patterns in order to simplify and classify what we encounter. When hurtful things happen, we anticipate the wounding behavior of others to protect ourselves from possible future wounds. We imagine others are thinking and feeling things about us that correspond to the wounding event(s). We start to organize our behavior around avoiding possible triggers, overcompensating by acting in the opposite way or surrendering to it. Our expectations contribute to co-creating future interactions that corroborate our assumptions. The fascinating thing about this process is that most of it takes place in our own heads and outside of our conscious awareness. |
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