Posts by JuniperBCN

And maybe just to get the ball rolling, are there any playgrounds our areas where there are people living off base where you could find people playing with their small children? That way you could increase the frequency of exposure to...

We're a trilingual, unschooling family and English is not the language of our environment. My kids (2 and 4) are having no trouble at all and I think a lot of this is due to the access they have to media (internet/DVD) and books in...

In our house a lot of questions come out while I'm flipping through National Geographic, reading blogs with cool pictures. I also tend to pick up coffee-table sorts of books from the library (big, beautiful pictures) and look through...

Outside is what keeps us sane... we live in Spain, so it can get pretty hot during the summer, but we end up taking walks and exploring in the evening then which actually works out pretty well. We try and provide access to scooters,...

We have interrupting volcanoes here! And they do sort of interrupt what's going on, right?

My DS (4) picks too! We were looking at photos from last summer in July and he has the exact same scab from a bug bite on his cheek now as then.... it did heal over the winter. Lately I've been sort of tut-tutting over the blood and...

We're in Spain and it's the same.... the playgrounds do fill up for about an hour or so just when school lets out, but it tends to be sort of overwhelming because it's ALL the kids at once after having done their school shift. The...

Tula and Bilga appeared on the scene when DS was 2 (now 4)and they're still around. They were originally just "men who work", but now travel a lot, live in different countries, have preferences and get into terrible scrapes. ...

Don't know if you're up for using the computer or if these work outside of Spain, but http://www.rtve.es/infantil/ is the kids section of the Spanish national tv station. Pocoyo is very mellow and easy to understand. We also have a...

Check the web pages of Brazilian radio/tv stations? I don't know if there are any state-run ones, but where I am, the Spanish and Catalan government-run stations have lots of resources on their sites. The BBC also has a ton of stuff...