Fostering curiosity in kids (and their parents) since 2011

Posts tagged ‘Nature’

Caterpickles Cleans House a Third Time

It’s been nearly a week since I answered any of my daughter’s questions, and boy are they piling up. Today, I answer several quick ones about worms, hedgehogs, and how many shots my daughter would need to visit hedgehogs in their native habitat.

Book Review: Outdoors with Kids Boston

Although The Five-Year-Old loves a good Pajama Day at home, I get cranky if we string too many of them (read: >1) in a row. But there are only so many times you can go to Capron Park Zoo, Jamaica Pond, the Boston Public Garden, Moose Hill, or even the Boston Museum of Science. Consequently, I’m always looking for good day trips with The Five-Year-Old, and with summer coming up, I was pretty happy to find Outdoors with Kids: Boston at our local bookstore last week.

Robins, ticks, and cherry blossoms? Already?

Perhaps you’ve heard that we’ve had an unseasonably mild winter up here. Maybe the fact that The Five-Year-Old was still struggling with mosquito bites in November clued you in. Or maybe it was the complete lack of complaints about snow (and the requisite snow shoveling pictures that you know I would have posted, had they existed). Or maybe you live here and experienced the disconcerting bliss of a basically snow-free winter in Massachusetts for yourself.

I’ve been vaguely uneasy about the whole thing all winter. So I spent some time reading up on it.