Mapping the Green Team’s Impact in and around Edinburgh
The Green Team are passionate about supporting young people to find their place in nature. 2021 was a challenging year but their first impact report reveals it was their busiest year yet, with nearly 1,000 young people taking part in the group’s programmes. Check out the Green Team 2021 impact [...]
Nature helps children recover from adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)
‘Time in nature can be a powerful antidote to the negative impacts of trauma and stress in children’s lives.’ The Children & Nature Network share evidence-based resources in this toolkit. Some great infographics show nature as a pathway for healing, the social and emotional benefits, plus research study references. This [...]
How children are helping to make their families more eco-friendly
This article in the Conversation (20 May 2022) shares new research on how children can transmit acquired values, knowledge and skills back to their families. This can potentially altering family behaviour, via the process of “reverse socialisation”.
Outdoor Play for Wellbeing Fund launches
The Outdoor Play for Wellbeing Fund will provide funding of up to £15,000 to support Scottish charities providing outdoor community play opportunities for children and families experiencing disadvantage, as defined by SIMD. Funded by Scottish Government, Inspiring Scotland’s Thrive Outdoors team will manage the fund, supporting charities delivering outdoor play to change, learn from and [...]
How to increase your kids’ outdoor time
This article (26 January 2022) shared by the Children and Nature Network describes how it can be hard to make time for regular outdoor play even though the benefits of outdoor play for children are well understood by most adults. The author offers tips for shifting that mindset. She argues [...]
Creating positive outdoor experiences on parental attitudes outdoors
This EIS Action Research Grant project focused on exploring parental ideas on accessing local outdoor space, in a class of Primary 3 pupils. Barriers that parents/ carers identify when it comes to accessing the local outdoors were explored. The report explores whether the pupils’ positive outdoor experiences have the potential [...]
Free-ranging kids?
This article in The Guardian (16 August 2021) explores the benefits of “free-range parenting”, providing children with more freedom to play outdoors, in the context of our increasingly risk-averse society.
Nature supports family connections
The Children & Nature Network have signposted research articles on parent-child communication in different contexts. Parent-child communications can improve in the outdoors. See how shared outdoor adventures can create, maintain and enhance family well-being.
