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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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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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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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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Acorn 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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Introduction to Seedlings
In this module, we will take a deep dive into sensory supports and body regulation in nature.
In this module, we will take a deep dive into sensory supports and body regulation in nature.
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Grounding Yourself
We break things down into simple, manageable parts so you never feel overwhelmed.
We break things down into simple, manageable parts so you never feel overwhelmed.
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Let’s break down ways to support your child’s senses in nature.
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Seedling Resources
Download your Chapter 2 companion guide — including the 3 D's observation worksheet and reflection questions to help you practice sensory strategies with your child at home.
Download your Chapter 2 companion guide — including the 3 D's observation worksheet and reflection questions to help you practice sensory strategies with your child at home.
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Intro to Cultivating Curiosity
The stages where curiosity comes front and center? Why is the sky blue? What is that? Where are we going? Learn when and how to support your child’s growing curiosity through nature.
The stages where curiosity comes front and center? Why is the sky blue? What is that? Where are we going? Learn when and how to support your child’s growing curiosity through nature.
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Cultivating Curiosity
We break things down into simple, manageable parts so you never feel overwhelmed.
We break things down into simple, manageable parts so you never feel overwhelmed.
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We break things down into simple, manageable parts so you never feel overwhelmed.
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Cultivating Resources
Download your Chapter 3 companion guide — including the 3 C's observation worksheet and reflection questions to help you practice curious questioning strategies with your child at home.
Download your Chapter 3 companion guide — including the 3 C's observation worksheet and reflection questions to help you practice curious questioning strategies with your child at home.
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Intro to Oaks of Autonomy
The stages where curiosity comes front and center? Why is the sky blue? What is that? Where are we going? Learn when and how to support your child’s growing curiosity through nature.
The stages where curiosity comes front and center? Why is the sky blue? What is that? Where are we going? Learn when and how to support your child’s growing curiosity through nature.
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We break things down into simple, manageable parts so you never feel overwhelmed.
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We break things down into simple, manageable parts so you never feel overwhelmed.
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Oak Resources
Download your Chapter 4 companion guide — including the 3 L's observation worksheet and reflection questions to help you practice autonomy strategies with your child at home.
Download your Chapter 4 companion guide — including the 3 L's observation worksheet and reflection questions to help you practice autonomy strategies with your child 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
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