From Acorns to Oaks
Are you feeling stuck supporting your child’s language development? Do you want less screen time and more green time? This course was designed for YOU! These little ideas and concepts will lead to BIG changes in how you can support your growing child.
This course includes:
🌿 4 weeks of video lessons, released weekly
📖 Digital copy of The Outdoor Explorer Guidebook (a $36 value)
📁 Organized materials folder — everything you need, ready to use
💬 Exclusive Facebook community with direct access to me
"Nature is not a place to visit. It is home."
Richard Louv
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Welcome!
Course overview and setting our mind and bodies up for success. Throughout our journey we will be moving and exploring our own backyards together. So get some comfy shoes, weather appropriate clothing and a mindset that is ready to go outside!
Course overview and setting our mind and bodies up for success. Throughout our journey we will be moving and exploring our own backyards together. So get some comfy shoes, weather appropriate clothing and a mindset that is ready to go outside!
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Why Go Outside?
Going outside does more than get the wiggles out. Discover what the research says about nature and your child's development.
Going outside does more than get the wiggles out. Discover what the research says about nature and your child's development.
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Intro to Acorns
Every strong connection starts somewhere. Reflect on your own childhood safe place — and discover how your earliest memories of people and places shape how you bond with your toddler today.
Every strong connection starts somewhere. Reflect on your own childhood safe place — and discover how your earliest memories of people and places shape how you bond with your toddler today.
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Acorns of Attachment
Explore three pillars of early childhood development to support attachment to humans, places and other living things.
Explore three pillars of early childhood development to support attachment to humans, places and other living things.
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Learn the 3 P's of supporting attachment: parentese, pausing, and playfulness.
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Acorns in Action
Watch the 3 P's in real life. Spot examples of parentese, pausing, and playfulness in action — then reflect on which strategies best support each attachment theory for your own child.
Watch the 3 P's in real life. Spot examples of parentese, pausing, and playfulness in action — then reflect on which strategies best support each attachment theory for your own child.
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Resources
Download your Chapter 1 companion guide — including the 3 P's observation worksheet and reflection questions to help you practice secure attachment strategies with your toddler at home.
Download your Chapter 1 companion guide — including the 3 P's observation worksheet and reflection questions to help you practice secure attachment strategies with your toddler at home.
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Nurturing Children through Nature!
Throughout this course, we will discuss the momentum your child takes as they grow and move throughout the stages of communication development, from birth to adolescence.
Developmental Milestones
Let’s give you some ideas to support your child where they are at, whether it’s early stages of life or closer to their teen years.
Hands-On Ideas
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Katherine, Outdoor Therapist | Speech Pathologist
Each concept presented is designed with nature in mind. We are eager to share these ideas from world-renowned resources and help you implement these options in nearby natural spaces.
Nature-Based Concepts
Ideas and concepts that are lifelong skills to continue to provide even in later years of life.
Support to Last a Lifetime