'We don't mollycoddle them': The preschools letting kids spend hours in the dirt

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In the mud and in the trees, Australia's bush kinder movement is building momentum.

They're universal skills which aren't just for city kids.Before bushfire hit the community of Buchan, 350 kilometres east of Melbourne, in late December, Buchan Early Childhood Development Centre educator and coordinator Rocio Levings had been taking children into bushland near the small township since 2014.

Carrying string, compasses and magnifying glasses, every session normally includes a bushwalk led by one of the four-year-olds. "We don't mollycoddle them, we let them have the experience and then they teach other children not to hang onto the sword grass.""They see what drought does, what the ground looks like when there's been no rain, what happens when people throw fishing lines or rubbish in the creek — the consequences of the interactions between human and nature," she says.

 

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