Highly Sensitive Children and Nature: THE Free Bucket Emptier
Highly sensitive children and nature go together like peanut butter and jelly. Getting out for a walk with your children in nature is an amazingly effective remedy for busy days.
When life is overwhelming, particularly as the end of the school year approaches, highly sensitive children need our help. Self care for all of us is even more important at these times. Nature is a fantastic (free) bucket emptier!
This is exactly what the five of us did last week one day after school. We headed to the woods in the Achterhoek where we live. We walked, explored and relaxed. Each of us shook off the demands of the day and went home with an empty bucket. Oh and a collection of rather large sticks…..
We played.
The boys ran.
We stopped by the waterside and were amazed by hundreds and hundreds of tiny tadpoles swimming relentlessly around, in different states of development. Some were still incredibly small but some teeny frogs were already hopping around on land. The water’s edge was black with the volume of tadpoles.
We admired the beauty of a passing butterfly who stopped to take a moment to rest on the ground.
And we walked and took in the blueness of the sky, and the yellowness of the surrounding fields.
We listened to the rustling of the wheat in the field.
It did us the world of good.
Get out this weekend with your children and explore all that nature has to offer.
Let me know where you went in the comments……
Bucket Emptying Tips
If you are looking for more bucket emptying tips for you or your highly sensitive child visit:
How to Empty a Highly Sensitive Child’s Bucket
101 Ways to Help Your Highly Sensitive Child Empty Their Bucket
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