This is fantastic CV.. Brings back memories of my childhood. We would go out and play and come in when the street lights came on. Mum just trusted us. If we got hurt we learnt how to deal with it. We got dirty, wet, and didn't get in trouble for it but just went in and had a nice warm bath and were so hungry we would eat anything. We were so active I think it actually helped us develop our learning abilities anyway. Good to hear Australia has them too - No screens either Yay! My own kids were outdoors more. I love this - learning through creativity, play and nature. ❤😂🎉
Haaaaaaaa. Deb The Street light was our clock and Mom's voice saying Ok CV time to come in haaaaaaa.... "learning through creativity, play and nature" Love that Debb and yes we had our fun and learned life lessons at the same time. Debb There's a show called naked and afraid and man do i love that show because the younger people in that show don't do so well but the older men and women do well because we learn survival early.
@CVTECK1 Thanks CV. I'll have to have a look at that show. I have to add - a little bit of discipline never hurt us either. One thing I just can't get my head around is that our young people hear about their "rights" all the time but the remaining "r words seem to be forgotten - responsibilities and respect"! Cheers Deb 😍
@@CVTECK1 11:48 Fjord, is neither the ocean or a river, it is part of the ocean going far inland with land on most sides. Sort of inland ocean. Saltwater lake.
Super, your kid will love it, my son went to forest kindergarten, and he loved every single day, no matter the weather! (BTW, he is getting a medical degree from Aarhus University)
Notice the kids' clothing. Rubber boots, rubber pants, hats, gloves...they truly do look like gnomes. In Germany we have a saying "There is no such thing as bad weather. There's only wrong clothes!" That's how you learn to prepare for all kinds of weather.
In Australia where there is extreme heat, there is probably more water play but really children on screens in air conditioning seems to be the babysitter these days. It's terrible seeing so many primary school age (6 to 12 years old) children with their own phones here. 🤔
As a Finn we would play outside and in forest all day as children, just coming home to eat and sleep. Working with knives, making fires, camping, fishing, swimming on our own. Being one with nature. Cutting ourselves, getting bruises, and getting burnt, doing all the wrong things to learn what are the right things.
They are fantastic, Ricky. I love seeing no screens and it reminds me of my childhood. I really feel sorry for kids in our child care system here in Australia. Cheers AussieDebb
My thought about cutting the stick: Ah, they are going to bake bread or sausages on the bonfire! Every US citizen who's reacted to this video instantly se a WEAPON.
@@CVTECK1 I know you are cool about it: It's a tool! It's not like you expect the kids to stab each other with the forks at the dining table, eh? 😆 "OMG there's a tooth pick - someone could loose an eye" 😱 Peace and love - also to your lucky children 🥰
@@CVTECK1 We had a bon fire with a just 3 year old last week end. Her first. Dad and her were building the fire, cleverly, carfully and corectly - but when it got lit, Mum got a bit worried. Then she saw that her child was clever enough not go near: It's too fåking hot! We all keep a natural distance. Such a good place to teach "so far - and NO longer" - like the kid's at the fjord... If you go any further than we've told you, it's going to be bad, very BAD! We watch her, we stay close and we never leave her alone - but it's not like we think the child would throw herself in to the fire. Easy now, Mum 😅 We had a splendid time "making" food on the fire 😋
Yeah I was thinking that too- that they're going to have their meal outside . We used to make sticks like that and put hot dogs on to cook over the open fire.
Canadian here. Our kids went to a school that was a bit a a mix between this and traditional. In the morning they would walk in the forest, they would work in the garden, they would do physical things. In the afternoon they would do classwork. They had the morning to burn off energy, they would garden the food for lunch (and cook it) and after lunch they were able to settle. All day they were learning math, science, language etc. As they got older, they spent more time in classrooms, but they also added instruments and sports. They waited until the kids were old enough to pay attention in class. Also, every desk in every class had something for their hands. (wax, putty, playdough) so if the got fidgety they had something tactile available. Kids need to be outside.
I'm Danish and went to a forrest daycare. I would highly recommend it to anyone. In regards to temps, we never Froze.. In Denmark we have a saying, there' no bad weather, only bad clothing. I learned about nature, had a ton of fun, got to use my imagination. It was awesome.
In Denmark, many parents also use the "hov, op igen" approach. It basically means "upsi, up again", and is used whenever a child has a minor fall. It validates their shock over the fall, but then encurage them to get up and try again. It works wonders. I use it on my niece and that has stopped her from crying over a minor trip several times (sorry for miss spelling. English is my second language).
I agree with you. This is how childhood should look. I am a great believer in jumping in puddles. When I was little, my Mum would seek out puddles and we'd all jump in them together. When I was in my 40s, I was walking through Oxford on a rainy day and I found a giant puddles in a back street. I jumped in it and then looked up to see an old lady do exactly the same thing. We grinned at each other and went on our way.
Kindergarten here in Denmark is offered for children between 3 and about 6 years of age. My youngest nephews went to a forest kindergarten and had max 3 days of because of sickness. They learned to eat what could be found. My 10 y.o. nephew loves soup made with stinging nettles
Fun fact .. in 1997 a danish woman living in us did do as she would do in denmark and did park her stroller and child outside while she was inside a barbecue restaurant and of cause she did check on the kid .. but after some time someone did call the police and she was arrested for child-endangerment and authorities took charge of the kid .. The charges were dropped but she filed a $20m false-arrest lawsuit against the city. In 1999, a jury awarded her $66,000, rejecting many of her claims but agreeing that she should not have been strip-searched, among other findings. Its a normal thing here to let small kids sleep outside and we belive it help the immune system become stronger 
Born in the 60´s with a stay at home mom this was my life, lived outdoor as much as I wanted. Followed my parents into the woods picking berries, they went far just saying "Stay close to the car, don´t get lost". The same when we went down to the river for fishing, the walket away with a Don´t fall into the river, then you die, ok!" They trusted me and because of that I respected their words. My hubby has the same upbringing and we decided that I would stay at home with the kids until the youngest became a teen. Living in the countryside it is easy to have this sort of upbringing and I´ve done the same thing as my peers and my kids have never let me down. Respect nature, learn how to find your way in the forest, don´t fall into the river, sit still in the boat and so on. Well, after picking my son down from the top of a pine 98 feet high I said that the third time was the last. 😆 I have seen a significant difference between kids living in town and our country side kides when it comes to outdoor living, behaviour and also the musclework and balance between children with autism, knowing many of them not having the same outdoor experience as my son. Now, I don´t look down on his passion for computers and gaming because he build his own computers so his fine motor skills is very good, just that there has to be a balance in life. Living in big town now he is still found om taking long walks by the riverside and when the snow has gone he takes his longboard or bike to work.
Yeah I lived in Denmark, Norway and Iceland as a kid and yeah. I also just played outside until dinner time then I came home. My parents prop didn’t know were I was but Iceland is safe and I prop was in some cave pretending I was an elf😎. I was born in Denmark so 4 years there 1 year in Norway then Iceland at 6 and yes I did use all the languages and the teachers were really confused😂
Agree my children was alout to clime and run and do what they wanted ,,, Now I am a grandfather and see only accident and bad things happening , Even jumping in sofa can turn my hart almoust stop ,, getting old
If you say Yes to your children most of the time, they are going to listen when you occasionally say No. If you almost always say No to your children, they are going to stop listening even when that No might be important. Fjord is a part of the sea with land on three sides. Often the opening to "the real sea" can be fairly small.
I love it. The only time a child got properly injured in 17 years of his work, it was a parent who did it. Just goes to show how big of a deal this sort of teaching is for young kids. I'm Latvia, we didn't have forest kindergartens, but many of us do grow up with free access to the wilderness, to a forest, etc. Making a spear to cook sausages like that or sharpening a pencil with a small knife, I mean my ome taught me that (grandma). I was very young, I don't remember learning it. I remember doing it.
I've attended a similar Kindergarten in Germany. When I was 4 or 5 I already knew how to use tools and how to start a fire safely < which was good, when it was cold. We also made our own bread at that fire place ... put some dough around a wooden stick and place it near the fire - it worked! *yeah
this is how u build strong, resilient, and social kids... let them be cold, let them be wet, let them touch a hot hot plate, let them fall down and scrape their knee, it all helps make them more resilient... we, Danes, have a LOT of trust in our kids, give them a lot of freedom, with only a few rules, from an early age, and from 8 to 12 years old, is a childs exploration age, where they WANT to go new places, and see new things, so as they grow older, we give them more freedom...
ouu, hello CVTECK1, so nice story about girl and puddle, totally true, I think almost all children want to jump into the puddle, then they understand that only those around them are splashed👍😁 btw, I am from Czech republic and we also have a lot of forest schoolgardens, sometimes I meet the children on the train or bus, everyone stinks of mud and smoke from the fire, every second child has a stick in their hand and they look happy😂
Greetings from Denmark 🇩🇰 ! Yeah.., you do "react" and interrupt A LOT 🤣! But you make good and valid points. And Dude..,, letting your son learn of his mistakes, makes you a GOOD parent 👍😊👍 ! If he doesn't learn from the small mistakes, how is he gonna learn to avoid the big ones 😲 !?. Good React ❤ !
I don't know how many times I've told my sons, that in order to become old and wise, like me, you have to have been young and stupid - like them. There's not much to be learnt from success. "Trial and error" gives better results 😉
@@ane-louisestampe7939… and trial and success gives confidence. I think it is about that, too! And they can’t experience the joy and pride if you don’t let them try.
@@winterlinde5395 Well said! Success is actually what it's about. But that doesn't come easy, so don't let a couple of failures take you down. You'll fail even better next time 🤣 and THEN you'll get there!
it is especially important for children to learn how far they can go in order to discover and deal with dangers. Children need to gain experience and where better to do that than in the forest. There you let a child be a child, that shapes them and they need that.
Love the concept. It is a bit like when I grew up (70s and 80s Netherlands) We were always outside playing and discovering the world. The best thing? You were still able to make mistakes, learn from that and become more resposible in the future.
Besides all other benefits: what a fun it was for Leon, our foster child, comming home from the forest and getting cleaned up his waterproof dungarees - with the garden hose…
This is from my city.. I'm actually a pedagouge/teacher myself and have been to this place a few times.. The location is soo nice, and the kids are so balanced.. Also Johan is an amazing pedagouge.. I think I would actually love to work there more than a regular kindergarten since it's just nicer to be outside all day 😊
A lot of foreigners think that there are a lot more injuries in forest kindergartens but that's actually not the case. My personal theory is that these kids (FK for Forest Kid) have all the space in the world whereas the kids in "normal" kindergartens (NK for Normal Kid) are kept much closer together and often inside for most of the day. The natural curiosity of the FKs is also more sated whereas the NKs are often bored of the same toys day after day and tend to act out in frustration (my personal experience from having worked in such a kindergarten). And this is where the extra bonus comes into play: The NKs come home ready to be physically and mentally entertained by their exhausted parents whereas the FKs come home physically tired, curiosity sated and ready to cool down. You can imagine the different dynamics those two scenarios create in the home.
I got my first knife from my dad when I was very young. We gut fish and made different things with the knife. I still have that knife as a 42 year old. 😉
The injuries that the kids could sustain from climbing trees and so on are no worse than what could happen on a playground. It is all about teaching the kids to be careful. And if they get injured, it's at worst gonna be a broken bone. Kids' bodies are extremely resilient.
I was born in denmark and the kindergarten and preschool i went to would always tell us "you can crawl up trees but as long as you keep in mind you may crawl up it as long as you can get down again its fine" even my mom told me and my brother that like i was a crazy child and i didnt even have more than one friend in school and I'd usually be found looking at bugs or crawling up stuff. We'd even go to forests to learn stuff or the ocean or a lake. As babies, our parents would put us to sleep outside no matter the weather as we believe it helps our immune system get stronger, and I have rarely been sick ever and when i do get sick it only lasts a total of two days tops but if i would be really sick it'd be a four day rest most so i trust that its a great thing. As much as i dont especially like it here as an adult theres also a lot of things i love about it here❤️
In Denmark with got a saying. Brændt barn skyr ild. It translates to. Burnt child respect fire. It is very simple. Learning by trying. Love from Denmark. BTW, where a you from?
I’m from Danmark and my kindergarten was not a forest kindergarten but it was connected to a forest so we had fences and all but you had a lot of chance to crawl in trees and play with snails and stuff
Aussie here. Blessed to have grown up like this as a normal life. Last few generations of parents have grown up seperate from nature afraid of everything and overprotective because they are afraid. The kids experience nothing and live in a bubble with no coping skills resilience or common sense. No wonder we have a generation of teens young adults who'se most serious issues are that their feelings are hurt which is devestating for them. Let them scrape their knees get dirty and problem solve without helicopter parents rescuing them.
Kerry I agree with you. My son broke his leg when he was 3 years old being a kid. Next week he wanted to go play soccer with the cast on his foot. Now he's 17 and is a plumber now and kids his age thinks it's a nasty job lmaoooo. My son tells his friends he will be a licensed plumber age of 20 $$$$$$$. But all his friends are scared of any labor it's nuts to even think about.
in my danish school we hadm a week each year where you could pick what you wanted to do, some of the options was fun chemistry( fireworks ,thermite magic tricks) there was also fishing and horseback riding, and a fitness option where you went to the gym with the teacher
When you talk about us trusting our kids, we say that it's "frihed under ansvar" and it's how most work places here work to. Translated it means Fredom with responsibility. We show our kids that as long as they keep in a set frame of rules (don't walk down to the water without an adult - don' hit eachother ect.) then we trust them. We show them that we know they are kind, loving, creative, smart little people, and they take that with them, their whole life. We let them test their limits when they are young and then we will help them correct problematic behavior, or get them help (before they get older and maybe get their hands on a gun).
" ...Because here in the US I wouldn´t trust a 15 year old to cross the street by themselves,- let alone get anywhere near a knife!..." Grumpy Old Man incoming. Hilarious.
Yes we do a lot different then other country’s we also have were smart kids and when they learn as kids they know when they are older. We also put the baby’s out sleep during the day.
i grew up in a small town near copenhagen but we went on school trips all over doing all of these things and it wasnt a issue at all obviously it was a little different 20 years ago but a lot of what i used to do is still being done today which is nice to see as well as i remember there being a hazel nut tree which the worker would pick us up and put us in the tree to pick hazelnuts for us to enjoy and that was never an issue being careful was something that is instilled in children here from a very early age
This place is just 20 minutes from my town. But it's pretty much the same way I grew up, and I am 52. The concept has been in use over most of northern Europe for many years.
We have a lot of trust back as we grow older. The awareness changes significantly to gratitude, and you appreciate life more, and you can actually debate positively, even politics in such an environment.
Kids are made to get hurt and learn from it. If I did half the things as an adult as I did as a kid I'd be dead now, but those little tykes just shrug it off and get a little life lesson.
Love it too. Although I'm unsure about the climbing high in trees part. A kid that falls from that height as seen in the video is honestly likely going to die. I used to climb super high myself. To the top of trees, just like this kid. But yeah I don't know what the right answer is.
Finally an american that gets it. Not saying no, no, no, that’s not safe, I would never allow that and that’s a lawsuit waiting to happen. Won’t somebody think of the children…
@@CVTECK1Hi great that you share this with the world. I am Danish, born in 1966 and went to one of the first forest kindergartens in Copnhagen in 1970, then we moved to a small island where I played safely in nature with the other schoolkids without adult supervison my entire childhood. Growing up and applying for architect’s academy I moved back to Copenhagen and gave birth to my first daugter at 25y in 1992. She went to a forest kindergarten, too, a 40 min. busride from the city - back and forth every day with her pockets full of dead and alive worms, frogs and insects ;).
Hi ! Greetings from a local ☺ ! Denmark is a "Trust" based society ❤. For the most part! It works for us 😍 ! Today's confident Kids, are tomorrows well educated and prepared employees and leaders...
Same with teenagers to a certain degree. Show trust and respect in your kids and they will become confident and mirror that. With support and acceptance that goes a long way
AS a Dane and a granddad I think: you cant learn all from a book, you need hands_on on learning. My grand daughter think I am crazy ćuz I jumped i a puddle on the way home from shopping, she did the same and told her mother( with a big smile): "granddad is crazy".
I grew up in one of those. We had all the tools we wanted for free use, saws, dagger/knives, hammers, nails. Cut myself a few times while stripping bark from a stick making bread over fire.
Children arn't stupid. If you explain to them why they need to abide certain rules they will understand it. We had a forest outside our kindergarten and we where playing in them. Climing trees playing hide and seek. We had to do knife school and you got a certificate that you knew how to handle a knife before you where allowed to do woodcutting and we went ice skating in the harbor and you got to learn where you where allowed to go and not to go. The problem today is to many people threat their kids as stupid and wrap them up in cotton wool. If they don't learn when they are children they will not cope in the world as adults. :S
Think about how a young growing body needs exercise,thats what good about being outside all day,I was never in Kintergarden,because I was studdering,my Mom was the paedagog! :-)
Thing is, if you are around to say no and you don't they'll learn what happens while you are there so they don't try it when there are no adults around to help them with the consequences.
@@CVTECK1Kid's have left the nest, and I've recently found out that Reaction Videos are a bit like watching tv with someone else 🤣 And it was "hyggeligt" 🥰 to watch it with you.
WAR ? ? - NO ! ! How to handle a Screwdriver, Hammer (or a Writing Pen), if you dont know some BASIC TRICKS You fall you get up. Burnt Child Avoids the Fire. Learn to swim or... LEARNING by DOING.
waw, all of U americans... U'r just sooo funy... like the teather sayed: in 17 years he only had 1 "big"/major accident, and that was when a parent drove over a foot of a chiled in the "parkinglot". How do U'r children lean about how to treat natur, and the wold as a hole? trust and happyness gos hand in hand, and here in Denmark we got a lot of trust and therefor a lot of happyness.
It's definetly not uncommon to start drinking and going out with your classmates around 13-14 years old. And then you can legally buy beer when you are 16. Not that they don't do the same in US but drinking culture definetly is different.
Um… how old is this video? Because I am from Denmark 🇩🇰 and I have heard of kindergartens that is more nature oriented, but 100% not this kinda stuff with playing freely in woods or giving the children knifes!?😰
This reminds me of current generation, so many cross without using the crossing even with their kids, like teach them to use crossing so they are safe An idiot crossed between at bottom of a bridge and a roundabout, a driver blasted horn as driver in front stalled their car as that idiot crossing
Ironically, your completely wrong pronunciation of "Copenhagen" (the German name) is actually surprisingly close to the correct pronunciation of "København" (native Danish name)... you seem to have picked up the right phonetic sounds, but applied it to the wrong word! That's impressive! 👏😆
This is fantastic CV.. Brings back memories of my childhood. We would go out and play and come in when the street lights came on. Mum just trusted us. If we got hurt we learnt how to deal with it. We got dirty, wet, and didn't get in trouble for it but just went in and had a nice warm bath and were so hungry we would eat anything. We were so active I think it actually helped us develop our learning abilities anyway. Good to hear Australia has them too - No screens either Yay! My own kids were outdoors more. I love this - learning through creativity, play and nature. ❤😂🎉
Haaaaaaaa. Deb The Street light was our clock and Mom's voice saying Ok CV time to come in haaaaaaa.... "learning through creativity, play and nature" Love that Debb and yes we had our fun and learned life lessons at the same time. Debb There's a show called naked and afraid and man do i love that show because the younger people in that show don't do so well but the older men and women do well because we learn survival early.
@CVTECK1 Thanks CV. I'll have to have a look at that show.
I have to add - a little bit of discipline never hurt us either. One thing I just can't get my head around is that our young people hear about their "rights" all the time but the remaining "r words seem to be forgotten - responsibilities and respect"!
Cheers Deb 😍
My parents had a whistle, and we had a specific tune, when we heard that tune on the whistle, we knew we had to go home. :)
@@CVTECK1 We can't use sundown/street lights up here North (it variates 7 hours) We listened for the church bells 😆
@@CVTECK1 11:48 Fjord, is neither the ocean or a river, it is part of the ocean going far inland with land on most sides. Sort of inland ocean. Saltwater lake.
Im from the US and im about to have a kid in Denmark and she'll be going to forest kindergarten 😊😊
Super, your kid will love it, my son went to forest kindergarten, and he loved every single day, no matter the weather! (BTW, he is getting a medical degree from Aarhus University)
Notice the kids' clothing. Rubber boots, rubber pants, hats, gloves...they truly do look like gnomes. In Germany we have a saying "There is no such thing as bad weather. There's only wrong clothes!" That's how you learn to prepare for all kinds of weather.
I love that quote Maireweber
In Australia where there is extreme heat, there is probably more water play but really children on screens in air conditioning seems to be the babysitter these days. It's terrible seeing so many primary school age (6 to 12 years old) children with their own phones here. 🤔
We have that saying in Denmark too.
We have the same saying in Norway as well.
We say that in Sweden too.
😂😅😊
As a Finn we would play outside and in forest all day as children, just coming home to eat and sleep.
Working with knives, making fires, camping, fishing, swimming on our own.
Being one with nature.
Cutting ourselves, getting bruises, and getting burnt, doing all the wrong things to learn what are the right things.
Note that trolls in Denmark is a positive narrative. In all actually in whole Scandinavia.
Literature for kids as Mumitrolde and Troldepus
Mumitroldene = the Moomins.
In Norway and Iceland the trolls are not nice, they are real trolls, mean and scary !
@@mbwangenSame thing here, it was just a wrong statement.
As a Dane I'm gonna be biased but I love these things - and the mentality that allows them.
They are fantastic, Ricky. I love seeing no screens and it reminds me of my childhood. I really feel sorry for kids in our child care system here in Australia. Cheers AussieDebb
Ricky I love it and man do kids need this today.
My thought about cutting the stick: Ah, they are going to bake bread or sausages on the bonfire!
Every US citizen who's reacted to this video instantly se a WEAPON.
not me i like it they teaching these kids how to make it in life
I was just joking and it's perspective like they told the kids the knife is a tool .
@@CVTECK1 I know you are cool about it: It's a tool!
It's not like you expect the kids to stab each other with the forks at the dining table, eh? 😆
"OMG there's a tooth pick - someone could loose an eye" 😱
Peace and love - also to your lucky children 🥰
@@CVTECK1 We had a bon fire with a just 3 year old last week end. Her first. Dad and her were building the fire, cleverly, carfully and corectly - but when it got lit, Mum got a bit worried.
Then she saw that her child was clever enough not go near: It's too fåking hot! We all keep a natural distance.
Such a good place to teach "so far - and NO longer" - like the kid's at the fjord... If you go any further than we've told you, it's going to be bad, very BAD!
We watch her, we stay close and we never leave her alone - but it's not like we think the child would throw herself in to the fire.
Easy now, Mum 😅 We had a splendid time "making" food on the fire 😋
Yeah I was thinking that too- that they're going to have their meal outside .
We used to make sticks like that and put hot dogs on to cook over the open fire.
Canadian here. Our kids went to a school that was a bit a a mix between this and traditional. In the morning they would walk in the forest, they would work in the garden, they would do physical things. In the afternoon they would do classwork. They had the morning to burn off energy, they would garden the food for lunch (and cook it) and after lunch they were able to settle. All day they were learning math, science, language etc. As they got older, they spent more time in classrooms, but they also added instruments and sports. They waited until the kids were old enough to pay attention in class. Also, every desk in every class had something for their hands. (wax, putty, playdough) so if the got fidgety they had something tactile available. Kids need to be outside.
I'm Danish and went to a forrest daycare. I would highly recommend it to anyone. In regards to temps, we never Froze.. In Denmark we have a saying, there' no bad weather, only bad clothing. I learned about nature, had a ton of fun, got to use my imagination. It was awesome.
Hi CV I’m from Denmark - and I can tell you, that the kids love it.
Let them be kids and explore the world as long as possible❤️
In Denmark, many parents also use the "hov, op igen" approach. It basically means "upsi, up again", and is used whenever a child has a minor fall. It validates their shock over the fall, but then encurage them to get up and try again. It works wonders. I use it on my niece and that has stopped her from crying over a minor trip several times (sorry for miss spelling. English is my second language).
Yes Americans especially need to let go lil, I know America is so scary but a fall is just a fall calm down.
I agree with you. This is how childhood should look.
I am a great believer in jumping in puddles. When I was little, my Mum would seek out puddles and we'd all jump in them together.
When I was in my 40s, I was walking through Oxford on a rainy day and I found a giant puddles in a back street. I jumped in it and then looked up to see an old lady do exactly the same thing. We grinned at each other and went on our way.
That is a great moment
Kindergarten here in Denmark is offered for children between 3 and about 6 years of age. My youngest nephews went to a forest kindergarten and had max 3 days of because of sickness. They learned to eat what could be found. My 10 y.o. nephew loves soup made with stinging nettles
In Scandinavia where the word fjord originates it means an inlet. Not only surrounded by mountains.
Fun fact .. in 1997 a danish woman living in us did do as she would do in denmark and did park her stroller and child outside while she was inside a barbecue restaurant and of cause she did check on the kid .. but after some time someone did call the police and she was arrested for child-endangerment and authorities took charge of the kid .. The charges were dropped but she filed a $20m false-arrest lawsuit against the city. In 1999, a jury awarded her $66,000, rejecting many of her claims but agreeing that she should not have been strip-searched, among other findings. Its a normal thing here to let small kids sleep outside and we belive it help the immune system become stronger

Born in the 60´s with a stay at home mom this was my life, lived outdoor as much as I wanted. Followed my parents into the woods picking berries, they went far just saying "Stay close to the car, don´t get lost". The same when we went down to the river for fishing, the walket away with a Don´t fall into the river, then you die, ok!" They trusted me and because of that I respected their words. My hubby has the same upbringing and we decided that I would stay at home with the kids until the youngest became a teen. Living in the countryside it is easy to have this sort of upbringing and I´ve done the same thing as my peers and my kids have never let me down. Respect nature, learn how to find your way in the forest, don´t fall into the river, sit still in the boat and so on. Well, after picking my son down from the top of a pine 98 feet high I said that the third time was the last. 😆
I have seen a significant difference between kids living in town and our country side kides when it comes to outdoor living, behaviour and also the musclework and balance between children with autism, knowing many of them not having the same outdoor experience as my son. Now, I don´t look down on his passion for computers and gaming because he build his own computers so his fine motor skills is very good, just that there has to be a balance in life. Living in big town now he is still found om taking long walks by the riverside and when the snow has gone he takes his longboard or bike to work.
As a Dane , this is pretty " normal and it's a part of the overall Scandinavian /Nordic / nothern european mindset....
Yeah I lived in Denmark, Norway and Iceland as a kid and yeah. I also just played outside until dinner time then I came home. My parents prop didn’t know were I was but Iceland is safe and I prop was in some cave pretending I was an elf😎.
I was born in Denmark so 4 years there 1 year in Norway then Iceland at 6 and yes I did use all the languages and the teachers were really confused😂
Yeah we are quite relaxed, kindergartners eating dirt, beetles being stung by bees, falling down from three's is just a part of the experience.
Agree my children was alout to clime and run and do what they wanted ,,, Now I am a grandfather and see only accident and bad things happening , Even jumping in sofa can turn my hart almoust stop ,, getting old
If you say Yes to your children most of the time, they are going to listen when you occasionally say No. If you almost always say No to your children, they are going to stop listening even when that No might be important.
Fjord is a part of the sea with land on three sides. Often the opening to "the real sea" can be fairly small.
Balance
Deep Bay...??😎
@@janrasmussen4617 Yeah, I guess that would be a good way to describe it.
"Mommy, you are grown up and can do as you please, right?"
"Yeas dear."
"Then why don't you stomp in the puddles?"
Love this❤
Mommy: That's because I don't want to get wet feet.
I love it. The only time a child got properly injured in 17 years of his work, it was a parent who did it. Just goes to show how big of a deal this sort of teaching is for young kids. I'm Latvia, we didn't have forest kindergartens, but many of us do grow up with free access to the wilderness, to a forest, etc. Making a spear to cook sausages like that or sharpening a pencil with a small knife, I mean my ome taught me that (grandma). I was very young, I don't remember learning it. I remember doing it.
I've attended a similar Kindergarten in Germany. When I was 4 or 5 I already knew how to use tools and how to start a fire safely < which was good, when it was cold. We also made our own bread at that fire place ... put some dough around a wooden stick and place it near the fire - it worked! *yeah
this is how u build strong, resilient, and social kids... let them be cold, let them be wet, let them touch a hot hot plate, let them fall down and scrape their knee, it all helps make them more resilient... we, Danes, have a LOT of trust in our kids, give them a lot of freedom, with only a few rules, from an early age, and from 8 to 12 years old, is a childs exploration age, where they WANT to go new places, and see new things, so as they grow older, we give them more freedom...
ouu, hello CVTECK1, so nice story about girl and puddle, totally true, I think almost all children want to jump into the puddle, then they understand that only those around them are splashed👍😁 btw, I am from Czech republic and we also have a lot of forest schoolgardens, sometimes I meet the children on the train or bus, everyone stinks of mud and smoke from the fire, every second child has a stick in their hand and they look happy😂
Im from Copenhagen and my kids are put on a bus and goes to the Woods every day - its great ❤
I thinks great as well. Teach him to be thick skin a little bit early age but just awareness
Greetings from Denmark 🇩🇰 ! Yeah.., you do "react" and interrupt A LOT 🤣! But you make good and valid points. And Dude..,, letting your son learn of his mistakes, makes you a GOOD parent 👍😊👍 ! If he doesn't learn from the small mistakes, how is he gonna learn to avoid the big ones 😲 !?. Good React ❤ !
Thank you 🙌 KH yes i do talk a lot but but it's a RUclips law to do that. We need to let kids learn things at a early age
I don't know how many times I've told my sons, that in order to become old and wise, like me, you have to have been young and stupid - like them.
There's not much to be learnt from success. "Trial and error" gives better results 😉
@@ane-louisestampe7939… and trial and success gives confidence. I think it is about that, too!
And they can’t experience the joy and pride if you don’t let them try.
@@winterlinde5395
Well said! Success is actually what it's about.
But that doesn't come easy, so don't let a couple of failures take you down.
You'll fail even better next time 🤣
and THEN you'll get there!
That is why we watch reactions. To get the reactor's comments.
The best way to learn is through mistakes…. Because you learn what not to do….. a basic and simple way to learn 👍
it is especially important for children to learn how far they can go in order to discover and deal with dangers. Children need to gain experience and where better to do that than in the forest. There you let a child be a child, that shapes them and they need that.
Love the concept. It is a bit like when I grew up (70s and 80s Netherlands) We were always outside playing and discovering the world. The best thing? You were still able to make mistakes, learn from that and become more resposible in the future.
Besides all other benefits: what a fun it was for Leon, our foster child, comming home from the forest and getting cleaned up his waterproof dungarees - with the garden hose…
It's exactly the same in Norway 🇳🇴 we grow up with nature all year around. ❤
This is from my city.. I'm actually a pedagouge/teacher myself and have been to this place a few times.. The location is soo nice, and the kids are so balanced.. Also Johan is an amazing pedagouge.. I think I would actually love to work there more than a regular kindergarten since it's just nicer to be outside all day 😊
A lot of foreigners think that there are a lot more injuries in forest kindergartens but that's actually not the case. My personal theory is that these kids (FK for Forest Kid) have all the space in the world whereas the kids in "normal" kindergartens (NK for Normal Kid) are kept much closer together and often inside for most of the day. The natural curiosity of the FKs is also more sated whereas the NKs are often bored of the same toys day after day and tend to act out in frustration (my personal experience from having worked in such a kindergarten). And this is where the extra bonus comes into play: The NKs come home ready to be physically and mentally entertained by their exhausted parents whereas the FKs come home physically tired, curiosity sated and ready to cool down. You can imagine the different dynamics those two scenarios create in the home.
I got my first knife from my dad when I was very young. We gut fish and made different things with the knife. I still have that knife as a 42 year old. 😉
Great Job dad my kind of guy
@@CVTECK1 he was, Thank you. 💜 He's dead now, but I I remember him every day in my own way.
@@annina134 May he rest in paradise Annina 🙏🙏🙏
@@CVTECK1 Thank you
The injuries that the kids could sustain from climbing trees and so on are no worse than what could happen on a playground. It is all about teaching the kids to be careful. And if they get injured, it's at worst gonna be a broken bone. Kids' bodies are extremely resilient.
Dane here, my daughter went to one, she loved it. She was never sick. She is 24 now.
I was born in denmark and the kindergarten and preschool i went to would always tell us "you can crawl up trees but as long as you keep in mind you may crawl up it as long as you can get down again its fine" even my mom told me and my brother that like i was a crazy child and i didnt even have more than one friend in school and I'd usually be found looking at bugs or crawling up stuff. We'd even go to forests to learn stuff or the ocean or a lake. As babies, our parents would put us to sleep outside no matter the weather as we believe it helps our immune system get stronger, and I have rarely been sick ever and when i do get sick it only lasts a total of two days tops but if i would be really sick it'd be a four day rest most so i trust that its a great thing. As much as i dont especially like it here as an adult theres also a lot of things i love about it here❤️
In Denmark with got a saying. Brændt barn skyr ild. It translates to. Burnt child respect fire. It is very simple. Learning by trying. Love from Denmark. BTW, where a you from?
I’m from Danmark and my kindergarten was not a forest kindergarten but it was connected to a forest so we had fences and all but you had a lot of chance to crawl in trees and play with snails and stuff
Im from Denmark!!! Great reaction video man:P
Awesome! Thank you!
Aussie here. Blessed to have grown up like this as a normal life. Last few generations of parents have grown up seperate from nature afraid of everything and overprotective because they are afraid. The kids experience nothing and live in a bubble with no coping skills resilience or common sense. No wonder we have a generation of teens young adults who'se most serious issues are that their feelings are hurt which is devestating for them. Let them scrape their knees get dirty and problem solve without helicopter parents rescuing them.
Kerry I agree with you. My son broke his leg when he was 3 years old being a kid. Next week he wanted to go play soccer with the cast on his foot. Now he's 17 and is a plumber now and kids his age thinks it's a nasty job lmaoooo. My son tells his friends he will be a licensed plumber age of 20 $$$$$$$. But all his friends are scared of any labor it's nuts to even think about.
in my danish school we hadm a week each year where you could pick what you wanted to do, some of the options was fun chemistry( fireworks ,thermite magic tricks) there was also fishing and horseback riding, and a fitness option where you went to the gym with the teacher
When you talk about us trusting our kids, we say that it's "frihed under ansvar" and it's how most work places here work to. Translated it means Fredom with responsibility. We show our kids that as long as they keep in a set frame of rules (don't walk down to the water without an adult - don' hit eachother ect.) then we trust them. We show them that we know they are kind, loving, creative, smart little people, and they take that with them, their whole life. We let them test their limits when they are young and then we will help them correct problematic behavior, or get them help (before they get older and maybe get their hands on a gun).
the most dangerous thing in that place, is the parents car! lmao
haaaaaaaaaaaa
" ...Because here in the US I wouldn´t trust a 15 year old to cross the street by themselves,- let alone get anywhere near a knife!..."
Grumpy Old Man incoming.
Hilarious.
😂😂😂
Yes we do a lot different then other country’s we also have were smart kids and when they learn as kids they know when they are older. We also put the baby’s out sleep during the day.
i grew up in a small town near copenhagen but we went on school trips all over doing all of these things and it wasnt a issue at all obviously it was a little different 20 years ago but a lot of what i used to do is still being done today which is nice to see as well as i remember there being a hazel nut tree which the worker would pick us up and put us in the tree to pick hazelnuts for us to enjoy and that was never an issue being careful was something that is instilled in children here from a very early age
A lot more forest kindergardens have opened now in America
This place is just 20 minutes from my town. But it's pretty much the same way I grew up, and I am 52. The concept has been in use over most of northern Europe for many years.
We have a lot of trust back as we grow older. The awareness changes significantly to gratitude, and you appreciate life more, and you can actually debate positively, even politics in such an environment.
Kids are made to get hurt and learn from it. If I did half the things as an adult as I did as a kid I'd be dead now, but those little tykes just shrug it off and get a little life lesson.
Love it too. Although I'm unsure about the climbing high in trees part. A kid that falls from that height as seen in the video is honestly likely going to die.
I used to climb super high myself. To the top of trees, just like this kid.
But yeah I don't know what the right answer is.
My husband is American, I’m Danish, there are cultural differences for sure.
im from denmark, and i was in such a kindergarten. I don't remember who taught to cut a pointy stick first, my dad or the kindergarten.
Finally an american that gets it. Not saying no, no, no, that’s not safe, I would never allow that and that’s a lawsuit waiting to happen. Won’t somebody think of the children…
Born in Denmark 1978 and I went to a forest kindergarten. And I loved it!!!
so this has been a thing in Denmark for a long time
@@CVTECK1 yes
@@CVTECK1Hi great that you share this with the world. I am Danish, born in 1966 and went to one of the first forest kindergartens in Copnhagen in 1970, then we moved to a small island where I played safely in nature with the other schoolkids without adult supervison my entire childhood. Growing up and applying for architect’s academy I moved back to Copenhagen and gave birth to my first daugter at 25y in 1992. She went to a forest kindergarten, too, a 40 min. busride from the city - back and forth every day with her pockets full of dead and alive worms, frogs and insects ;).
-5°C is not that cold. Hi from Finland. 😄
Nah, that's still bathing weather for you guys! 😄
Vikings in spe.🇩🇰.
Have them in Sweden too ❤
Hi ! Greetings from a local ☺ ! Denmark is a "Trust" based society ❤. For the most part! It works for us 😍 ! Today's confident Kids, are tomorrows well educated and prepared employees and leaders...
remember the temperatures are in celcius. That's why it seems so extreme to americans. 5 C is like 35 F
You give me hope for the USA
It's rough
"If a kid goes to church". That's not really a thing in Denmark. ;)
6:45 That would be moss, lol.
that is not uncommon in the nordic countries, here where I live kids play outside when it is below-20°C (-6F) and eating outside...
Great video btw 🎉
Same with teenagers to a certain degree. Show trust and respect in your kids and they will become confident and mirror that. With support and acceptance that goes a long way
AS a Dane and a granddad I think: you cant learn all from a book, you need hands_on on learning.
My grand daughter think I am crazy ćuz I jumped i a puddle on the way home from shopping, she did the same and told her mother( with a big smile): "granddad is crazy".
As a Dane, I thought kind of kindergartens was normal in the western world.
- I guess I am learning a lot about American too, by watching you react.
We are both learning and yes this is not a thing here. Kids fall down everyone want to cry lol. Let a kid get up on his/her own
I grew up in one of those.
We had all the tools we wanted for free use, saws, dagger/knives, hammers, nails.
Cut myself a few times while stripping bark from a stick making bread over fire.
If you learn this way, you will get interested in learning. So this is a very very good concept. And good for the health (immune system)
Children arn't stupid. If you explain to them why they need to abide certain rules they will understand it. We had a forest outside our kindergarten and we where playing in them. Climing trees playing hide and seek. We had to do knife school and you got a certificate that you knew how to handle a knife before you where allowed to do woodcutting and we went ice skating in the harbor and you got to learn where you where allowed to go and not to go. The problem today is to many people threat their kids as stupid and wrap them up in cotton wool. If they don't learn when they are children they will not cope in the world as adults. :S
Think about how a young growing body needs exercise,thats what good about being outside all day,I was never in Kintergarden,because I was studdering,my Mom was the paedagog! :-)
I grew up like that. Even thru middleskool we went out in biololigy, chemestry and physics. Just to make distractions. 😊
If you are freely playing in nature, you will automatically learn something about being independent.
so true
love youre reaction.. and youre are sooo right ;O)
Thing is, if you are around to say no and you don't they'll learn what happens while you are there so they don't try it when there are no adults around to help them with the consequences.
Keep talking, Sweetie! It's a reaction video, right?
I've seen the video several times; I came to find out what YOU think about it.
Thank you!
Ane thanks for understanding some people get mad that I'm reacting 😂😂😂😂
@@CVTECK1Kid's have left the nest, and I've recently found out that Reaction Videos are a bit like watching tv with someone else 🤣
And it was "hyggeligt" 🥰 to watch it with you.
"This dude looks like a gnome" xD hahaha
as a 32 year old dane, grown up like this it was hella fun and we learend so much. we still remember to this day xD and yea we can drink lmao :P
Ah yes, Denmark, known for its vast jungles.
2:35 wait 5 is hot. But I do live in iceland so😂
WAR ? ? - NO ! !
How to handle a Screwdriver, Hammer (or a Writing Pen), if you dont know some BASIC TRICKS
You fall you get up. Burnt Child Avoids the Fire. Learn to swim or...
LEARNING by DOING.
waw, all of U americans... U'r just sooo funy... like the teather sayed: in 17 years he only had 1 "big"/major accident, and that was when a parent drove over a foot of a chiled in the "parkinglot". How do U'r children lean about how to treat natur, and the wold as a hole? trust and happyness gos hand in hand, and here in Denmark we got a lot of trust and therefor a lot of happyness.
It's definetly not uncommon to start drinking and going out with your classmates around 13-14 years old. And then you can legally buy beer when you are 16. Not that they don't do the same in US but drinking culture definetly is different.
Am I the only dane watching this video, thinking this is just normal childhood?
We have a saying in Danmark, learning by doing.
Um… how old is this video?
Because I am from Denmark 🇩🇰 and I have heard of kindergartens that is more nature oriented, but 100% not this kinda stuff with playing freely in woods or giving the children knifes!?😰
This reminds me of current generation, so many cross without using the crossing even with their kids, like teach them to use crossing so they are safe
An idiot crossed between at bottom of a bridge and a roundabout, a driver blasted horn as driver in front stalled their car as that idiot crossing
Celsius not farenheit
Fiiiive??? Remember it's +5 celsius degrees and not +5 F, so above freezing
Ironically, your completely wrong pronunciation of "Copenhagen" (the German name) is actually surprisingly close to the correct pronunciation of "København" (native Danish name)... you seem to have picked up the right phonetic sounds, but applied it to the wrong word! That's impressive! 👏😆
People put their kids in a dome mostly, kids gotta learn the hard way. Of course you should always say stop if its over the line dangerous.
Would it be Neil deGrasse Tyson at the puddle?
Yessssss omg how did I forget his name 😂
i was told that i at that age actually ate those snails straight from the ground 🤣🤢, ye btw im danish and was in a forest kindergarten :)
That reminds me of me growing up- lol!
we are vikings
It makes for confident kids who know their limits
100%
Klar til krig - -, ja det er børn af vikinger 😂🤣
SON! be proud to live in the US, the land of the free.......but DONT do this or that and never climb on at tree or walk out of my sight or...........
5 degrees C, not F... Calm down! Its like 40 F...