Montessafari

We all know that the outdoors calm our nerves as adults (unless you are constantly worried about bugs or bear attacks), but I wonder if we as parents think about the affects it can have on a mid-tantrum child, or even in preventing some tantrums altogether. Here are 4 ways I’ve personally used the outdoors as a calming agent. The Outdoor Sedative About 4 months after our son was born my wife would run off to the gym in the evenings. My son was still nursing, and to be honest he just loved snuggling close to his momma. There were EPIC cries that ensued. I held him, rocked him, turned on some tunes, tried to distract, but nothing seemed to work. One day, my head was about to burst with a migraine from all the screaming and a long day at work. I went outside…and like magic, the screaming stopped! I took him to touch the trees and almost cried with joy as he completely forgot he was having full-on breastmilk withdrawals. He fell asleep as the sunset and it was the beginning o...