Building Your Child's "Green" Vocabulary

April 13, 2009

Our children are our teachers in so many ways, obvious as well as subtle. Their very appearance in our lives immediately certifies us as experts in all sorts of things -- and rookie-league amateurs in all kinds of others! Then they go to preschool, where they come to know facts that still elude us after all these decades. The species names of

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Getting Started with Organics

April 14, 2009

by Amy Peck for Being Savvy Denver Talking about organics can sometimes stir up as much controversy in a conversation as bringing up religion or politics. It's a topic with fervent followers and stoic skeptics, and after my children were born, I started leaning more toward the fervent follower side of things. Over the past few years my interest

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Five Things to Prepare Your Preschooler for Earth Day

April 16, 2009

Earth Day will be here soon, and now is the time to start preparing your preschooler for the important occasion. There are a lot of fun things you can do in advance and on Earth Day to help your little one understand what it all means, and why it's important. There are my top five favorite--and easy--things to do with preschoolers for Earth Day:

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Wise Words to Recommend Nature as a True Companion

April 17, 2009

Take it from one of the great poets: teaching a child to love nature and its innumerable wonders gives her a lifelong friend.    There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more. -- George Gordon, Lord Byron, "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"

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It's Not a Stick, It's a ...

April 18, 2009

Kids love to create, and their definition of artwork can be quite different from ours.  This means that chances are your child would be excited about an art project regardless of the materials used.  So, why not take advantage of that and scout out your home or your backyard for some craft supplies that would otherwise go unnoticed or just end

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