“A child that is too clean is not a happy child. The earth, the mud, the sand, the puddles, the animals, the snow, are all elements with which he wants and must come into contact. ” THE BENEFITS OF OUTDOOR EDUCATION

Your child comes home from school and has obvious signs of grass on his knees, sand in his shoes, sticks and bark in his pockets, stones of various shapes and colors that are insignificant for you, for him they are a treasure to keep and keep , a glass of plastic with a butterfly inside; you throw him back on the landing and tell him to come back only when he is clean.

At that point you go over him from head to toe with the garden water pump and go over his clothes under the blowtorch to make sure there are no other hidden animals.

Or: your child comes home from school and has clothes, sleeves, apron all colored and stained with paint, markers and chalk dust.

At that point you sterilize your clothes by putting them in a washing machine at 90 degrees with so much stain remover that even the washing machine is discolored!

WARNING

If you mom see yourself in these two profiles, do not continue reading this article.

Your child will not go back to the skin as described by the exaggerated examples above if he attended a school that adopts a pedagogical orientation called outdoor education.

He will return home happy and happy to tell mum and dad that school is done in the classroom, but also in the school garden or in the grove on the hill on the edge of the village.

The environment surrounding the school is the element that offers useful integration, work ideas and activities to be carried out in the open air in a natural environment.

In the classroom all the discoveries, experiences, observations, materials collected in the hours spent in nature will be taken up and processed.

A seed, a fallen nest, leaves, an egg, an infinity of mathematics, sciences, literary references, chemistry are before the eyes of children in the woods, outdoor education will accompany them and facilitate them in teaching them creatively and innovative, putting them to the test in an now unusual environment, especially for those who live in the city.

PS Dear Mum, you’ve read this far, it’s cold water that cleans your baby’s clothes best …

heat sets the color!