Afterschool – Cambridge Outdoors

Goings-on for Kids at the Harvard Museum of Natural History

Yet more shilling for the Harvard Museum of Natural History…seriously, these look like terrific programs. Kids’ classes, clubs, and programs – Harvard Museum of Natural History.

Will you be having dental floss with your garlic mustard today, sir?

Kids really don’t want lectures. They don’t want to learn stuff. They do learn stuff, though, because it is in the nature of their being to suck up information like a marsh. Back in the fall of 2012, when I was muddling through the particular big muddy of what to do with a gaggle ofContinue reading “Will you be having dental floss with your garlic mustard today, sir?”

Is Your Kid Bored? vs. Chipmunks in Winter

“Is Your Kid Bored” is a little bit of bait and switch. I apologize. As a parent who deals with my own kids’ “boredom” crankily, I am so sorry to hear you have this problem too. But somehow, despite my best intentions, I have poked at the problem sideways, by cooking up some after-school clubsContinue reading “Is Your Kid Bored? vs. Chipmunks in Winter”