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When forest school feels like expensive mud play while other kids learn academics

We started forest school with such high ideals about nature connection but my six-year-old comes home covered in mud having learned nothing measurable and my anxiety about falling behind is eating me alive.

Patan
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Our conditioning toward measurable outcomes can blind us to the deeper learning happening in ways we cannot quantify.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Alternative education — Montessori Waldorf unschooling?”

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