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As a danish citizen the two sayings I grew up with were “there’s no bad weather only bad clothing” and “it you can get up you can get down again”
Hello neighbour! Here in Norway i always heard those two aswell xD oh, and "what do you mean you can't ski?"
@@thanossnap4170 He he, dane here. I actually first heard the first proverb "there’s no bad weather only bad clothing", from a Norwegian friend many years ago (late 80's) on a skiing holiday in Voss with a bunch of Norwegian and Danish friends. Anyway regarding the two other proverbs,- on the first day, trying to impress his danish girlfriend (now wife) and friends, went up with speed on a (too) steep slope, flying in a 90 degrees angle up the air 😮and wow did he get down again,- breaking his collarbone. Auch. 😶🌫😶🙂😅
Me to
Same sayings in Germany, but I was never exposed to so much wind as here in Denmark. Now I am also saying it to my son who has worse weather then I had 😂
Same in Sweden😊
It's weird that Americans think the forests are dangerous when kids in American schools do live shooter drills.
oof
touché
Apart from that, the biggest difference between America and Denmark is the culture. We don't sue everyone all the time. If a child gets hurt in a kindergarten, Danish parents don't start to scream and shout about suing the kindergarten. It's part of life. No need for lawyers and panic.
Pretty much no lawyer in Denmark will ever get rich from specializing in suing people. It's just not in our culture.
You slip on the sidewalk in winter and break your arm, it's unfortunate but you go to the hospital and get it fixed and since healthcare is free in Denmark, no worries.
They've banned Kinder Eggs in the States because in 40 years there been 10 deaths (Worldwide). Child gun deaths? - no problem.
well to be fair, many forests in America actually are pretty dangerous. The most dangerous creature in our forests(danish) are badgers or ticks
As a Dane, this is funny af to me, because this really isn't a big deal to us😂
Same for me as a Swede. There is always a waiting list to get the kids into one of these places. We call them ur och skur-förskolor.
To complete the Scandinavian trio, same thing in Norway. Baffling to see that this is a strange concept, it's just kids being kids. From a former "kindergarden teacher", they learn way more this way compared to being "safeguarded" 24/7. Just let them explore and find out how stuff works!
@@snofos74 My son was at a Montessoriförskola and they spent a lot of time outdoors. In the fenced in area they had a small piece of woodland, which all the kids really loved. My son used to be covered in mud :-) Once when I picked him up (he was around four years old) I asked hom: What ARE you doing all day to get covered in dirt? Do you roll around in the mud? He just said: ”Yep!” 😂😂😂
@@AnnikaDacke There is Skogsmulle for 5-6 year olds as well.
Det är så fint när vi alla träffas såhär 🥲
As a Brit and a school teacher in Denmark I can safely say that Danish kids in a skovbørnehave are some of the sanest kids I've ever met.
There are also less migrants among them.
I dont remember much from when i was so Young but the few glimpses i remember are from the forest kindergarten and we always had a blast running off into the woods hiding from the employees🤣
@@NordicHebrew There's nothing wrong with immigrants; I, myself, am an immigrant. Perhaps it's a certain type of immigrant you're talking about 🤔
@@NordicHebrew As a danish man, what an irrelevant comment. YOU are the problem.
I'm an American living in Denmark. It's the best way of life. I have never felt so happy and free. Danish kids are happy and healthy and very social. And yes babies sleep outside even in winter in a bunting.
There are certainly tons of problems as well. Only a tiny minority of Danish mothers really care about motherhood, instead they prefer working.
Ohh nooo...its communism
Trump will win....lets allow commercials in kintergarden
Yes, I remember Danish babies bundled up with rosy cheeks in their prams outside while their parent popped into a shop to pick up their purchases. Does that still happen?
Alas, less and less I think.
I can only speak for Copenhagen (and not the rest of the country) But sadly, it seems that Denmark is about to lose some of this carefree mutural trust, cohesion and innocence that used to characterize the people.
When these children come home, they are physically tired instead of mentally tired and therefore sleep better at night...
👌👌👌 Spot on mate
Am an pedagog and been working with children in Denmark for over 20 years now. A Forrest kindergarten is fantastic and it’s the best job you could ever have.
Yes we have to trust our children that they can overcome obstacles by them self and of cause there will always be an adult around if things are not working out for the child. They are never left alone, there will always be an adult close by and I can tell you that if ANYONE of the children breaks any rules the other kids are going to tell an adult right away. You’ll be able to hear it the second that a child breaks a rule a lot of yelling will start immediately 😂😂😂
Thank you for your service. 😉
Thank you for the work you do with children.
Than you for our future
Hi, I'm Danish. you have to remember that none of the kids are forced to climb or use a knife, but they have the option.
Kids in Denmark also safely bike around town, because we have the proper infrastructure for it.
They don't need to be driven everywhere.
And use public transportation alone at an early age. I was 7 when I used busses across Aarhus (the second largest city in the country) by myself.
@@imajinallthepurple When i was 7 we had trams in Århus
@@pliashmuldba Hmmm, can't remember when they stopped running but I was 7 in the early 80s. 🤔 Kind of ironic that they've put up the new version now, "letbanen". 😄
@@imajinallthepurple A okay jeg var hvis også lidt gavmild med sandheden her, sidste sporvogn i Århus kørte i November 1971, og der var jeg altså kun 5 år gammel.
Men jeg husker at køre i dem på Vester ringgade og jeg husker også en der kørte på Trøjborg.
@@pliashmuldba Jeg kan huske, at sporene lå der endnu. 🙂
I am from Denmark and there is a forrest kindergarten near to where i live and the kids there always look like they are having the time of their lives. They learn fine motorskills, to manage risk, to use their imagination and their bodies. Love your reactions as always. much love from Denmark
For many of us older people, this is what our childhood was about. In the Summer I'd be gone after breakfast, to play with my buddies - building dams across streams, climbing trees and building shelters in the woods. And yes,, we all had our little pocket knives and catapults! These days it's TV, internet, video games and fear of your own shadow. Sad and unhealthy.
Hi, danish forest kindergarten kid here. I loved my kindergarten and still do. Me and my siblings all went to the same one. Now, I wont say how my siblings lives are going, but I am proud class- and studentcouncil president. My kindergarten provided me with great tools and skills for problemsolving and communication, and, to put it lightly, my learning motivation is doing alright. :)
Self responsibility and learning your personal limits. What a beautiful gift to give a child.
Americans don’t really care about lives and safety of children IF you consider the FACT that 17000 children died the past two decades for lack of access to healthcare. That thousands of children die each year of gun violence, to the point it is now the number one cause of death for both childen and teenagers.
The FACT that the USA has one of the most dangerous and lethal infrastructure of all OECD countries, and especially of Western Europe. In the USA there are on average 15x more road fatalities than in Denmark or similar countries. The FACT the USA leads in both mass shootings (83 percent of the total in the world) and School shootings.
In the USA children learn how to act when a school shooting takes place, while in Denmark they learn about nature, psychical activity and working as a group. The USA has the highest infant mortality rate of all OECD countries and the highest teenage pregnancy rate. Because teaching essential facts about life is deemed not important and/or against religion(s).
We can only applaud the Danes for what they are doing, especially if you consider the quality of life Denmark provides to its citizens.
This is the most wild thing to me, all of this information is available and anyone can fact check and yet somehow our leaders in Europe still manages to cite USA as an example of some sort. One thing is not to know such things for an ordinary person, but another is for politicians, either they don't know and thus are incompetent and don't know what they're doing or they know and intentionally remains silent because they are attracted by money that you can make in USA by expense of things you've mentioned.
I love how they decided to film on a bleak day. Wet and gray, like a lot of days in Denmark, but the children are used to it.
Would be fun to see a reaction for some shots of summer activities, when the children's faces are white streaked from sunscreen 😄
Have friends who lived in the USA. Their child had jumped off the couch on to the floor one day. A small jump well under 1 meter high. While the staff was alarmed he could have hurt himself, the parents wanted to burst out laughing. Culture crash. The parents thought “you guys should have known what children do in Norwegian kindergartens and preschools. Luckily the problem of risking law suits is not as deep and widespread in the Nordic countries.
There are about 2100 "forest kindergartens" here in Germany (as of 2021). I just love this concept and wish it had existed back in my day in the late 60's ! What it's all about, my mother would have expressed like this: "From harm one becomes wise" and "dirt cleans the stomach". And I am sure all these kids have a very, very good sleep after a full day of fresh air and exercise. Surely a blessing for the parents' nerves.😉
So true, my mom said I got lots of fresh air and was tired at night time.
I am from Norway and we have a similar situation here. The main thing here is to let urban children, that often muse be indoors in their daily lives, develop motor skills. To know what you can and can not do physically. You get very direct intuitve understanding of your own body, material properties, how nature is alive all around you with insects, plants, etc. You learn how to del with getting cold and wet. You learn how mainful it can be to scrub your knees or other parts of your body, so you learn how to move and and what effects things have on the body. How surfaces are safe to walk on. How rocks may slide out under your feet. All in all practical intelligence. In Scandinavia it is essential to learn about the cold. How to dress in the cold, how getting wet in the cold affects you is essentaial to understand, so you know how to stay alive in the winter. You learn about clothes and what you have to wear to be comfortable. If you don't know the importance of staying dry when there is frost, and how to pace your energy not to get sweaty, you may get in serious problems if you wander far from warm houses. This gives you an intuitive understanding about what you can do in extreme conditions. The other part of it is how comfortable it is to use your body and brain this way. One other thing that is much empasized in Norwegian "nature kindergardens" is contact with animals, so they are often placed close to farms, and sometimes on farms. Part of the daily routine is to be around animals and get used to how they are. If you only see animals on TV you may get an unrealistic view of what they are. They are not teddy bears, and they have their own nature that you get to experience and get some understanding of.
Now you know where Vikings come from.
You mean the 500+ training camps 😂
As a Danish parent. Both my kids went to such a kindergarten. They loved it so much.
Its great and it teaches them confidence.
In Germany we also have forest kindergardens. And in the regular kindergardens they often make little fieldtrips in the woods or nature. It's great for the kids
we have 500 in dk and we are only 6 million people
but german culture is not the same, we all khow the german saying freedom is good but control is better..
that is very different from denmarks jantelov that our kids grow up with, that just tells the kids we are all the same and no one is above or bellow us..
the kids might be in a forrest in germany, but the culture is not the same
@@Hansen710 In Germany it is no longer 1932 either.😂
Of course we don't have the same culture, but compared to the American one, the way we raise our children is very similar.
I remember my childhood... we had to be at home when it was dinner time, otherwise we were outside and played in the forest, building burrows in the ground or climbing trees, or building bridges over streams, crawling through the grass and collecting insects ... and completely without any supervision .... the forest kindergarten is for us Germans an opportunity to give our children back this freedom that we enjoyed .... and that is already a controlled measure ... .because someone is paying attention here.
education in Germany will differ widely between the different states as education is state not nation ruled.
It's fun to share your experiences growing up and the friends you met as an adult have no clue what you are talking about. My primary school up north in Schleswig-Holstein had a big focus on the outdoors. I can name every rock and plant and creature (not quoting Pocahontas😅). I also have a vast knowledge of old folk songs and our regional dialect. Most of my friends' schools were more academically focused and none of us attended private schools. No idea where I am going with that ... just that I really love Denmark and that we all wish we were still part of it.
@@Hansen710
your are trying to quote Lenin during the Russian revolution in 1918 or so :)
He said: trust is good, but control is better
During that time in Germany FKK, the free body culture, being naked, actually dancing naked in nature, in nature along side der Wandervogel movement was already going for years, sometimes for decades.
You may want to update your historic understanding.
Same in Switzerland
I’m an American living in the DK. My son went to a forest kindergarten and it was fantastic.
The school had some farm animals and one day I went to pick up my son and he told me they killed a chicken and plucked its feathers . He said ‘they chopped its head off’ right in front of them. I thought it was good for him to see how he gets food 😀.
It also gets kids used to cold and dark days of winter, which is important to learn in Scandinavia .
My mom was in charge of one of these kindergartens back in the day. The small town we lived in had a slaughterhouse and she took the kids there for an excursion once (with permission of course). A lot of the parents were shocked and against it at first, but literally none of the children were afraid of dead animals and blood. Children just soak it all up and accept it, it's only when the parents come in and freak out, that the children begin to mirror it.
Who cares if you get a cut on your finger. It hurts for like 10 minutes and then you're back out having fun and you learned something for next time.
@@MadsFeierskov So true. My son also learned about the pain of stinging nettles after falling into them (or being pushed) quite a bit. Nature is a wonderful teacher.
I’m from the Netherlands and my children had the same school care. They loved it too. Learning so much more, they never would have learned indoors. Rain or shine or snow. They went and loved it. Less stressed and slept like a baby afterwards.
Im Danish and went to a forest kindergarten too. The worst thing that happened was when me and my friend decided to run away because we wanted to go on vacation. The police got involved and we saw the police cars and ran back because we thought we were going to jail.
I have lived in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland and we all have the same thing. This is not a strange thing because the forest/nature is often right there. AND the kids sleep in their wagons outside for the sleeping time. :) For me it´s really strange that schools in US have weapon security ( I dont know the name, they go through the thing that scans metal ). I have never seen one.
Yes. Kids do fall and get scratches. And then they learn to be careful. A scratch will heal up. It's fine.
Great reaction vid. What they failed to mention was how the remaining 90% of kindergartens in Denmark work. Except for a few inner-city kindergartens, most of them utilize some sort of outdoor area for free play. At my children's (totally normal public) kindergartens, all of the kids was taken outside every day from lunch until they were picked up. No matter the weather. The smaller kids would go nuts on the playground and the older kids would take a walk or bike ride with one of the adults. Usually to a wooded area or scouts camp nearby.
This practise is considered a stable part of kindergarten culture in Denmark.
My wife runs a Enviro Kindergarton and just received an award for her catering to the neurodiverse but this is a whole new level . So cool , let the children fall they are resiliant .
I went to a forest kindergarten as a kid with a paralysis that heavily affected my balance and motor control, and the improvement to my physical ability just from running around on this uneven terrain and climbing trees was wild, according to my parents.
Also, even to this day (being in my twenties) it is so deeply instilled in me to know what is safe and what isn't when moving around in nature, it's become second nature just from those few years. Kids are very capable of evaluating their own and each other's safety with just a bit of guidance from adults.
Forest svhools are becoming popular in the UK too. They are so good for children.
I’m a Brit in Denmark, and both my boys went to a forest kindergarten ❤️ it was the best thing ever for 2 very active boys…they absolutely loved it 🌳
To be fair a lot of these kindergartens do have a small cottage with a bathroom where they can stay when the weather is completely awful (this is Denmark after all 😅) but the kids definitely prefer being outdoors.
Yeah. My kinds went to these kindergartens as well. They went on bus to the forrest every day and back. They all napped on the way back and wasn't making a fuss as many kids do when they are tired and didn't got to nap well during the day .
As a dane who went to an outdoor kindergarten, i can tell you it was absolutely amazing.
When you have few rules, the kids know that those rules matter.
(Unfortunately) no forest kindergarden in the Netherlands (or not that I know of), but my kids grew up right beside a forest. When my son was 4 he ones shouted (I was in our garden, he was in the forest): "Look how high I climbed". And then I saw he was almost at the top of the tree. It wasn't easy, but I trusted he would come out on his own, so I gave him a tumbs up and went back to the garden 😅. They (both kids) played a lot in the forest, where always dirty 😂 - did all sorts of things, building shelter out of branches, hanging in trees, digging big holes. And about the knive - I used it a lot when I was young, making speers or making insciptions into branches. I never thought of a knive as a weapon.
I think outdoors kindergartens are upoming in the Netherlands though! When I worked there, we had 2 outdoor groups, meaninng one grp was located in a childsfarm, the other had a big garden and always open doors! The other locations were supposed to spend as much time outdoors as possible.
Here in Norway, I see lots of grps outside. They are either taking the public transport to another place or take a walk to anywhere the kids want to go. So nice to see teachers with 2 years old climbing up a hill, no matter how icy it is! They just do it! And the wooden huts i see in the forest, builded by teachers and their children to spend time in and around when they gå på tur.... I love to see it! Kids need to explore the world and we are only there to guide them if they need it. And I do hope that at some point I find a job in a kindergarten to take part of that, once im used to the cold weather!
not a kindergarten but here where i live in the netherlands (nijmegen) there is a BSO (after school care??? don't know the english for that) that is also outdoors, and you see them cycling around with 10 or so kids in a big dubble cargo bike with one 'teacher' cycling
"After school care" makes sense to me.
In Denmark it was originally referred to as SFO/skolefritidsordning. It has been practiced here since the middle of the 80s.
skole = school
fritid = freetime
ordning = arrangement
To emphasize that it is not merely fun, but also involves a lot of useful learning the word DUS/"Det udvidede Skolefritidssamarbejde" has gained popularity. It means the extended school freetime corporation.
Don't know how much difference there really is, but by using the word "DUS" it signals more corporation with the school and what is done in DUS-hours should be seen as an direct extension.
I'm not sure all parent actually knows the difference - or really cares that much :).
@@groenteman777
This is how you build resilience in children 🇨🇦♥️🇨🇦
I live in a rural village in the north of Sweden. My kids hae never been in kindergarten but we have had the same direction in our upbringing for them: being outside as much as possibly, showing them and talkin about everything in flora and fauna. Letting them get wet, dirty (a lot of cow and other animals pop around here 😄) and scratch themselfes. Trusted them to play outside by themselvesfrom an early age with just one rule: do not go down to the river without an adult companion! Compared to children of city friends our kids have almost never been sick from flu, stomach illness or allergies. They are confident adults now, careful, thinking ahead but not afraid of testing. Respectful towards other living thing and for myself I am a very happy mom!
In the 70s I went from Danish skovbørnehave to doing nuclear attack drills in 3rd grade under a table in New Jersey. Climbing trees still does not scare me much.
I loved being in the forrest as a kid. Many times i was covered in mud and dirt from top to bottom when returning home. Kids don't do that today, and I feel a bit sorry for that.
If societies cared more about children & families, they would make the investments necessary to have this type of learning environment available to all children 🇨🇦♥️🇨🇦
True "family values" cost money, but it is so much cheaper in every way to get outraged about nip slips and drag queens exclaiming "BuT wHaT ABouT tHe CHiLdreEEeeN!?"
I'm Danish and I love the forest kindergartens. Just think of the healthy sleep it gives after running around and experiencing a whole lot
and not just be mentally exhausted from sitting inside every day. And the social learning that comes from being together that way.
I have never heard of any accidents and believe me if there was, it would be hugely advertised on national television.
Today there are around 700 forest kindergartens/nature kindergartens in Denmark and the number is growing.
Living in Germany our twins went to forest kindergarten only time we had any problem was when we came to pick them up to go home. Activities for the kids are changed weekly, monthly and through every season so the kids were challenged every day either mentally or physically. All the kindergartens have a building mainly for meals and like but most of time the kids want to be outside being kids.
I living in Finland. I’m +60. Before I go the school I learned how to use an axe, a saw and the knife at grandma’s. My kindergarten was indoor.
I'm Danish and went to forrest daycare and I would highly recommend it to anyone!
Im from Denmark .... more kids should live like this !! ... me, my husband and 5 kids live pretty much like this .... our kids can be kids every day and yes they get hurt sometimes, but way less than kids that have no clue how to act in the forrest / wild :) we are vikings in the north and we should live more like that :)
I can assure you that outdoor "forest" kindergartens works just fine. They are creative, imaginative, healthy, not overweight, eat healthy, no sugar, and they don't eat pieces of bad chinese toys. On the contrary, the children benefit a lot. We do the same in many afterschools. Oh, and by the way, no cell phones in kindergartens, very little monitor (computer) time, and no bullying.
As a Dane and European citizen, I would worry a LOT about the north American society as well as the British one, guns, knives, serial killers, extreme traffic (we use bicycles - you know, the funny machines that can make you move easily through traffic, no matter the weather, all year round), excessive food, bad bad food and lot's of sugar, the near criminal American food and drug administration, not free health care, the extreme differences between rich and poor, racism violence, attack dogs and what not, just to mention a few.
So get over here and learn ;)
Kind regards.
I am from Denmark, and both of my kids went to Forrest kindergarten. They were never sick, and both of them
do great at school(they are both highly gifted). I think those early years outdoor in nature, made a good foundation.
I am from Denmark and these kindergardens are very popular and as a parent we strive to get outside with the kids everyday. And also the little ones sleep outside whenever posible.
I think it is important for kids to learn math, but in a different way. In a forest, you learn how many sticks you need to build a little model house for the fairies, counting, subtracting and 3D thinking. You learn that maths is the language of nature and physics and a key to the wonders of reality.
In high school, you need to try different things, just to see if you are the type who loves maths, physics etc.
Having a balance between tech and nature is important. I'm sad cause I've noticed how my nieces and nephews just can't handle being outdoors or without their ipads and phones.
5 degrees is freezing 😂 Back in Finland in school we were outside on recess until it was below -21 Celsius. I don’t think people just realize that we live in a very different culture in the north and kids are outside in pretty much any weather. Babies sleep best outside in the cold in their strollers, they don’t get cold because there are clothes and sleeping bags that are made for the cold.
It looks beautiful and i think that kids automatically have or build more resistance against viruses and allergies. These days are allergies [peanuts, gluten] everywhere.
I'm a Dane who grew up in snd still spend s lot of time outdoors.
I dtill have coliaki though (gluten intolerence) and other allergies.
It's not a given such things will not occur - but bring outside is definately healthier than gaming.
A great video. I'm 75 years old and as children, we would race up the trees and see who could get there first. We walked along a small wall, on one side a canal and on the other a huge drop to a railway line. And we raced along. Nowadays every child is overprotected. We ate slugs, worms, anything that moved. It was part of growing up and learning. BTW this was in Germany and Africa.
I grew up like this. Never a dull moment as a child. Det er bare federe end at sidde på sin flade og opleve verden gennem en bog
I'm from Denmark, Nakskov and;
I did go to a forest kindergarten back in 2008 - 2010 (born 2004), never have I ever enjoyed anything more.
I used to plan things to do with my friends in their yard after kindergarten was over, such good times!
Everything we did in the forest, was things we could do in the yard, it's just grass, branches and what not, pure nature!
So fantastic, and I wish I could rewind time just to experience it one last time, it was no doubt the best experience I've had in my entire life.
So fantastic to get others point of view around the world, thank you so much for this very interesting reaction, greetings from Denmark!
My grandson would love this, he is 2 and loves being outside..
Suddenly I get a little proud of being Danish!
And a forestworker back in the 70'es.
I can only say this... my house is surrounded by a forest and as a child I used to play in the forest all day with other children without a teacher to watch over us. Nothing really serious ever happened to anyone, and it all lasted until I started dating as a teenager. Now I am 73 years old and I am healthy and in good shape. ;))
I grew up in the 70's and went to a danish kindergarten in nothern germany (as a german).
I grew up, taking my own risks in nature; What trees can be climbed, building 'cabins' in the woods and how it feels to be dirty and wet.
You've learned from each other! If you fell, you don't cry for mom. Because the others also wouldn't cry for mom. You've learned, it's normal to fall sometimes. Even, if it hurts.
I drove 5km on my bicycle to 2nd grade without any adults following me (not every day, there were also a bus, i told my teacher I would come by bicycle tomorrow - and then I had too!).
You've learned to be independet early on, and hold your promises..
Wont miss that!
Dane here - I worked in a forrest kindergarten for a year after highschool and before uni. I didn’t get sick at all that year and I slept amazing and I looked different too - constantly fresh, bright-eyed and with rosy cheeks🥰🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰
As a danish person.
This is a kids paradise!
No matter what kind of kindergarden it is, they are playing outside 80% of the time.
No matter what the weather is
This is awesome. They get to experience nature to the fullest. And learn at the same time. The kid in the tree was scary though
This looks like a really beautiful and healthy way to package children's earliest educational experiences. I wish that we had this in the UK.
Three of my grandsons went to a similar outback pre-school in Australia when four years of age. Generally, Aussie, S African, and most European kids are allowed more independence and opportunities for self expression and limited risk-taking than the terribly paranoid and controlling atmosphere my kids and I witnessed during our six years living in the US.
An American mother, who lives in Germany with her family, went to a children's playground with her daughter. All German moms were sitting and chatting, while their children walked on the top of a wall. That American mother was reluctant to let her daughter climb upon and walk on top of that wall, because she might fall down.
Here in The Netherlands children as young as 7, 8 years old cycle on their own to school or after school activities like sport clubs. I've seen how a girl of approx. 10 years old accompied her little sister on their way to school, without parents in full traffic and without a helmet.
@@omervandenbelt they should have been wearing helmets though.
Work in a Norwegian kindergarten. While ours is not a forest kindergarten we are in the forest 2 days a week, and are also at the seaside at least once a month. So gladbi raised my kids here.
In Denmark we train our kids to become small viking warrios, so they can invade England again, at the age of 10.
It's always funny seeing none Scandinavian countries react to this🤣 It's just Denmark my dude😃
"Teach them that everything is a tool not a weapon"
you should get that expression printed on a t-shirt... 😃😃😃
Yup its very common here. My son is disabled so we chose a normal kindergarden.
Im from Denmark, my cousin did some work in North Carolina for some years.
When they delivered their kids in the kindergarten for the first time, they brought boots and clothing for rainy and cold weather.
But they were told “no need to do that, we don’t go outside if it’s bad weather.”
Can you imagine how developed the kids risk assessment is becoming from this?
As a Dane I must inform u that that below 20 degrees celsius has happened one time in my life, and I am 52. Normal winter here rarely comes below 5 degrees ☃️❄️🍃
I would say rarely below 10. Below 5 happens often. It was -5 just these last two days.
As a Dane, this brings me joy to watch, kids being kids living there best youth in the wild, when getting to scroll they don’t fear there classmates bringing weapons, if someone getting hurt we don’t sue, just bring the injured to the hospital to getting *(fixed up), not leaving the hospital in a huge debt
I am a little underwhelmed. This is how I grew up as a kid - and I suspect most other kids my age (58). What has the world come to.
Greetings from Denmark 😛
Same. I'm 34, never heard of a forest kindergarten but this was how I grew up :D Only had a possible near-emergency twice. Once when I was maybe 6 years old in the winter, where I became so cold, I couldn't even move. My older brother put me on our sled and pulled me all the way back home. Second time, around 9-10, I got stuck in a swampy uh... lake (maybe) and gradually started to panic, unable to pull up either of my feet. A friend of me and my brother jumped in and was able to pull me out, though. 100% worth it.
Also no overweight children❤❤❤ This is great
My kindergarten was basically a bus that drove a new place every day. Different forests, outdoor playgroinds, the beach, an old gravel quarry. It was awesome. I cannot think of a better way to spend those years.
Also kids arent stupid they intuitively know when to stop climbing up
Those knives are not weapons .... they are used to make weapons; awfully pointy sticks.
Breaking an arm or a leg as a kid used to be part of growing up, just like getting scrapes or concussions. kids heal fast of those and learn of the experience.
In Sweden we call scraped and bruised legs "summer legs" 😂
A pointy stick is not a weapon.. but it is easier to ram into the ground or use to dig out centipedes in rotten wood etc. A rake is not a weapon, a shovel is not a weapon, a hammer is not a weapon, a scissor is not a weapon. They can all do harm and kill. But they are not weapons. They are tools and meant to create stuff or break down stuff, not to harm people or animals.
When you learn the first and basic cut, to cut away from your self and you are cutting the end of a stick, then you end up with a pointy stick. Now let's learn what a pointy stick can be used for... and just like we learned with the knife, what to be careful not to do with it.
Also the sticks are not seen as weapons, but tools too. because kids this age in denmark don’t need to know the deeper meaning of the Word weapon.
@@rljturbo I was being a bit sarcastic with "awfully pointy sticks". Anything can be used as a weapon with enough imagination.
In my kindergarten where there would be at least 3 of the staff around the property at all times during outdoor activities there were more than 10 accidents during my 3 year stay there due to the concrete around the playground, metal pipes and bolts on every structure sticking out (ladders or sandbox for example) because the kids took off the plastic covers off of them out of curiosity, there was also not enough room for 3 separate classrooms of kids even though the parcel was probably around 1-1,5 acres, bringing kids to a forest would definitely be a safer, cheaper and more natural way of teaching and playing in my opinion
I think it makes it better cos they are taught some biology. "Don't eat this mushroom!" I'm Danish. In kindergarten we did have outings in forests and they were my favourite. The new things to see wets the wetstone in your brain. Being stimulated loke that HAS to be great for brain development.
As a GenXer i can relate to what these kids are doing as i did the same things growing up.Running around being kids.I fully support this.Much love from Canada.
I have been working in a forest kindergarten, in Denmark, for 8 years and I will never change for another job. Love it everyday.
I remember my own time in kindergarten now 15 years ago. In Norway i was in a fenced in kindergarden but it had a massive outdoor area with forest and mounds. Always used to climb the trees and fell down plenty of times. I think in many ways activites like this helps develop to risk evaluation and critical thinking in children as well as teamwork. There was plent of times we used teamwork to get outside the fence LOL. I think it also helps bone density. I often go skiing and had many accident but never broken a bone in my life.
My youngest daughter went to a forest kindergarten. She always came home extremely dirty and extremely tired. It was the best thing I could do for my child 👍🏼
The biggest chock is, that you are chocked. In Denmark this kind is avage and normal behavior. We simply love outdoor, and the reason is, we need to do it, otherwise we will sit indoor half of the year because of what is normally called bad weather. My daugher that is now 20, she went to a kindergarten in the forrest. She always think about it as the best time of her life. The forrest was her infinite playground. One thing my daughter like to say about her time in kindergarten is:" We even learned to handle pocketknifes, to cut in brances, it was fun, and when I came to school, it was not allowed because they thought of me being too little for that, but we already learned in the kindergarten" and then she smile a big smile.
We had a 9 m long rope hanging in a tree for her to climb, from when she was 5. She climbed it over and over, and I never encouraged her fear, to think even once it could be dangerous, so she did not think about it as being dangerous, but was focused on climbing it and having a nice time, normally singing, when she did.
My husband is Danish and he enjoyed the forest kindergarden when he was little. He made it to adulthood and his balance is amazing.
I grew up in the middle of nowhere (Vermont), and I ran off into the woods with my dog all the time. It was awesome.
Some 25 years ago I went to a kindergarten like that as well, it really made me sad to see them tear it down later, just to replace it with a "normal" kindergarten, and then see how the kids were hardly outside anymore.
We would only be allowed inside if it was freezing out, besides that it we had to be outside. Most of the time we would be at the kindergarten, where there was some trees, a sandpit and stuff like that. Once a week we would go for a 3-5 km to "nearby" woods, and then spend most of the day there. Even as a child you would be in charge of your food and water, so you had better remember to properly refill the water bottle etc.
I am so happy having gone to one like that, compared to the more modern one that was made later (ofc. at the time I felt cheated).
In my village we are only 400, but we have a firest kindergarden since round about 25 years. Greetings from Hessen Germany 🌲🌳🐜
As a Dane, it is very normal. My kids all went to kindergardens where the outdoors is important. My kids also have mandatory martial arts training from when they were six years old. Judo, boxing and muay thai. Tough kids have an easier life. Fragile kids will have a hard life. 🙂
I went to a Forest Kindergarten when i was a kid. It was the most amazing experiance i had. Enjoyed everyday and had a lot of fun. My kindergarten was a bit different, we meet up in the kindergarten and drove by minibusses the kindergarten owned to drive to a forest. we did that 4 days a week. We did a lot of different things. Like making campfires, fishing and a lot of other cool stuff.
A great experiance i wish my own children shall experiances aswell :)
Forest kindergartens have been in Denmark for the last 30 years, a fantastic form of learning about nature and a lot of exercise.
As my father used to say when I got scratch or hit my thumb with a hammer: "Son - you can do that as often as you want".
Teacher dude has more fun than the kids :)
cudos to you to embrace our danish way of doing things and being so open to a new approach of teaching children to being outdoors 🙂
Dane here: many forest kindergartens also invite the children to watch deers being skinned and cleaned after a hunt, to teach them the origin of meat.😂
I'm danish and my 4 year old son is in a forest kindergarten
My Nephews moved to Norway. For his sons nursery class he has to buy expensive sets of clothes because they play out in all weather, rain even the depths of a Norweigan winter. They say there is no bad weather just bad clothes. They put babys out in freezing weather to accustom their lungs. They will also as kindergarteners go into the woods, light fires, make traps, use knives etc. When you think of the climate if a child gets lost they would die if they could not survive until found. Children are more responsible because they understand danger. They do not wait for other people to police their behaviour.
We wanted our kids to go to a forest kindergarten here in Denmark, over 20 years ago. But at that time, it was very hard. You'd have to sign up your children, at birth, to have a chance.
When my daughter’s kindergarten made changes so she every third week was forced to be outside as a forest kindergarten kid, my wife and I were very worried. A few months later we all go more to the forest, make a bun fire, prepare food and hot chocolate there and we all love it!
So even as Danes, not all of us are without hesitation before sending our children outside all day. But being open minded might give you some pleasant surprises 😀
I went to one of these and i cant imagine being a little child and having to sit inside a room and play instead of just playing in The forrest
Thank you for bringing attention to this onto your channel. Best regards from Denmark 💙