Wild Tomato April 2017

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Re-wild your child Let the children play – how hard can it be? Getting children outside (‘like the good old days’) in this age of enticing screens and stringent health-and-safety rules can be a challenge. Maike van der Heide looks at the concept of ‘re-wilding your child’, and why nature is so important in bringing up capable youngsters.

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“Pick them up from school and take them to the dam, to the park, to the river …” – TA L I A B U RTO N WA L K E R .


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