Outdoor Play Connections with Claudine Mossberg

Today’s episode is all about outdoor play, both the possibilities and the challenges.  To help us dig into this topic, we have Claudine Mossberg with us.  She offers 1:1 coaching to Design Your Time Outdoors the way it works for you, and Group coaching to Build Your Outdoor Community for outdoor play, co-op or forest school style learning for all ages.  Some of the highlights of today's episode are talking about the importance of unstructured play at any age, from our youngest toddlers to our teenagers.  Claudine also highlights the many benefits of exploring with multi-aged groups. She talks about how the older kids have the opportunities to become mentors and the younger kids benefit from seeing their counterparts as being leaders.  Claudine also gives some great tips on how to start the school year on the right foot. She suggests starting off with safety expectations and gives some great examples of her call system.  A call system allows you to communicate with your children in case they get too far.  One call sound means respond. 2 call sounds means they need to come back to the teacher. 3 call means come for help.  At the end of the episode, we dig into some of the challenges of outdoor learning, like time and weather. You can find out more about Claudine's work on her website: www.outdoorplayconnection.com and make sure to follow her on Instagram: @outdoorplayconnection