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Connecting Children to Nature
Five Benefits from Connecting Children to Nature By Richard Louv and Cheryl Charles 1. Green plants and play yards reduce children's stress. Grow part of your backyard so that your children can go outside, make forts and castles in trees and bushes, and invent...
Healthy Summertime Snack Ideas
To get kids to munch on fruits and veggies in the summertime let them help select fresh produce at the grocery store or farmer's market! A surefire way to get fruits and veggies to disappear … Let the kids PLAY with it! (Please be aware of toddlers and choke-able...
Activities for Children in the Garden
Collecting and observing caterpillars will introduce children to the metamorphic lifecycle of moths and butterflies. It will foster children's interest in the natural world and increase their awareness of their local environment. How long will it take? 20 to 30...
The Pleasure-and the Power-Of Human Touch
The Pleasure - and the Power - of Human Touch by Susan Kleinman, LamasBeauty Correspondent You don't have to be a scientist to know that being touched - by the right person, at the right time, in the right way - feels awfully good. What scientists do know that you may...
Benefits and Research Regarding Infant Massage
History / Origin Massage therapy is one of the oldest forms of treatment in the world, having first been described in China during the second century B.C. and soon after in India and Egypt. Hippocrates, in 400 B.C., defined medicine as "the art of rubbing." Massage...