Just imagine how sleepy these kids will be after an entire day out in the fresh air and being active. You put them into bed at six p.m. and won’t hear a peep until the morning! Clearly, a win-win situation for the parents, too!😊

That is what we call freedom in Europe.

I live in Denmark. My grandson was a shy, clumsy boy who hated his kindergarten and just sat in the corner. My son put him into a forest kindergarten and they never looked back. My grandson is thriving, he´s active, happy and playing with other kids and his mototric skills have improved 500%

(I am a german mom) My boy went to a forest kindergarden till he was ready for school. And I am planing to send my daughter too, when she is old enough (at least 2 years old). It gives them so much and I can see, that my son is different from the other kids (he is almost 7 years old) in playing. Often, other kids are bored because they don't know, what to play with al the plastic- brightly-colord- ready to play- toys you can buy in the shops. My boy for example sees a stick and a stone and immidiately his fantasy kicks in: He imagines a wild-west-setting, playing cowboy or native. He builds little huts from branches and declares them as his castly. Then he is a king in his own country. Of cause, he likes his TV-time. But which child doesn't? ;-) But most of the time he is out in the garden or the forest to conquer adventures, that only are set in his own mind. I love that

I'm in the UK and I have an online Danish friend who I talk with every day. Sometimes I will say, 'oh it's raining' or 'oh it's too cold to go out' and she will ask me if I have a coat, gloves, a hat. I admit I do and then she shouts at me for not going out. 'Dress for the weather!' she will say. 'You won't melt if you get wet!'

My nephew went to an outside school in the UK, his Mum is Dutch. He always came home covered in sh*t and with a big smile on his face.

You can find these forest kindergartens everywhere in Germany. It was understood that independent children with good social and motor skills become responsible adults

In many countries parents teach their children that nature is an enemy because it is dirty, dangerous, uncomfortable, wet and hurtful. As these children learn that nature is your friend, something that protects you, nourishes you, lets you breathe! What do you think, which children later have the better, more balanced life?

As a danish pedagogue student with a profile in nature and sustainability we learn about the research in risky play and the importance of this. The kids learn so much about themselfs and their abilities when they overcome stuff and when they fail. When they learn exactly what is possible they get even more connected to themselfs and earn self esteem and much more. Other than that there is so much learning in the nature and they get skills for a life time during those years. Its also important to point out that the years in a forrest kindergarten getting an attention towards the nature will follow you the rest of your life.

I'm English and I was brought up as a child just like this. As kids we roamed the countryside making camps and climbed trees, we spent hours outside in all weathers. If someone fell in a pond the other kids pulled them out!! It was WONDERFUL life.

This was my childhood back in the 60s/early 70s - not at a forest kindergarten. We just spent a lot of time outdoors, climbing trees, making rope swings over streams, tad poling and building dens. At weekends we would be out all day without parents, and go home when our stomachs told us it was dinner time. We learned by playing, and if we fell, we learned to be more careful next time.

You actually do learn some physics, biology and chemistry when you are outside all the time as a kid. And you learn it through experience. The structure and maths of it all can come later - and they just might come easier for kids who had such experiences when they were little. Also: of course, motor skills and so on are a good basis to become an adult who still likes to work out in some way as an adult - - and stay healthier. Makes for less health care costs individually and for society as a whole. Just some aspects that make this approach really worth while!

Wow, that was fast. I recommended this video yesterday, because my kids are attending a similar forest kindergarten in Germany. Thought it would be an intersting one for you. At first I was also a bit sceptical, but after 3 years I would never go back to a indoor one. My kids are loving it. A bit of information if you like. There are groups of twenty kids from age 3 to 6 together in the group. The older kids watch over the younger ones and teach them the do and dont's. To use the knifes you have to be five years old and absolve a little test. They are very proud when they pass and are very cautios and doing it consciously.

Here you can see very well why children need so many different shoes. With just one pair of shoes you just don't get very far in the different weather conditions.

You think it's a kindergarden? It's a Viking Training Camp for our cool kids. 😊

5:22 "A horror movie vibe"?? Oh boy. That just shows what a fear-based culture there must be in the USA. When I was a kid playing outside in Scotland, a penknife was an essential tool for building a den in the woods.

It was fun to see your journy from your concerns because of children playing on a brickwall to appreciating forst kindergardens after only 3 videos. It is always interesting to see reactions from people that allow themselves to challenge their wordlview. Thats very rare

I note one huge difference between the Danish forests and those in the UK/USA that are near to housing... I did not see a single piece of litter or trash anywhere. The places were so clean and well respected. Wonderful to see.

My son was 4 years old and played in a Dutch city park with a bunch of kids from his street. I don't remember if there was supervision. I was not there. I went to get him for lunch and did not see him at first. He was in the top of a tree just like in the first minutes of this video ON WOODEN SHOES! I was quite amused as he said to me that he had difficulty coming down. Well, I said. Figure it out slowly. You came up, so you can come down too. It cost some effort to calm him down and think about the return way from the ground where I was. But eventually he saw he did not have a choice, and came down, very slowly. He felt so proud and learned that he had to make a mind map when climbing trees in order to be able to come down. He climbed trees every day since then (yes, with wooden shoes) and never had any problems to return safely to the ground.

I'm German and i was in a forest kindergarten very similar to that. we had a small trailer with a roof and a dixie toilet for if the weather was too horrible, but honestly we spent most of the time outside. we also have a forest behind my home and i spent most of my childhood running around and exploring the forest with my siblings. we would often spend hours in the forest without adult supervision. if we ever got hurt we would help each other home. if someone got stuck in a tree we would run to get a parent. the only real threat was the wild boar, but we always kept a respectful distance and there was never an issue. before we were allowed to be in the forest unsupervised, my parents made sure that we knew all the main pathways between our village and the next closest 2 villages. there was never an issue of us getting lost. if we ever didn't know where we were, all we had to do was find a larger path and follow it for a while before we knew where we were again. last week, my dad and i walked home, through the forest, from the next village over, in the dark, after having 7 beers each. we knew exactly where we were and how to get home for the entire walk. we even intentionally took several detours because we were enjoying ourselves and the night was pleasantly mild.

What's so unusual to you about kids climbing trees and playing outdoors !? It's just a natural way of growing up ! I did it as a kid in the UK, as did everyone I grew up with. We would leave the house in the morning and come home in time for our evening meal. Happy days !

I'm 61 years old . . . traveled to over 30 countries, and it NEVER ceases to AMAZE me how there is SO MUCH we can all learn from each other . . . this is BRILLIANT, if only more people kept an open mind. To quote one of my favorite lines from a movie; *"Life is a Banquet, and Most Poor Suckers Are Starving to Death"* [Auntie Mame, 1958]

Hey Joel, the Old Brit here again! What a great video; never even knew these existed...! what a fantastic way for kids to learn, getting muddy, climbing trees splashing in water and learning by experience! It doesn't get much better than that!!! Yeah clothes get dirty, hands n face get dirty, cold, wet, scrapes, bruises etc but it looks a lot more fun than sitting in front of a screen watching moustachioed Go-karter's! Brought back a fond memory of coming home after a long productive day of of damming a stream in our local woods... absolutely covered in mud, torn jeans and T-Shirt and fully expecting mum to go ballistic! She took one look at me and burst out laughing! Said "I'm NOT washing those! Get in the bath..." when I got out she just put my clothes in the bin (Trash can!) and talked about what we'd been up to... One of my mates (a lot less muddier than me) didn't fair quite so well... he was banned for a month from playing out with me and my best friend... that was over 50 YEARS AGO! Just goes to show how the happiest memories linger... thanks for posting this, put a real smile on my face! Take care mate!

I love your mind transformation because you are ready to learn. You are an outstandning example of what Americans could learn if they were a little bit open to what happens outside their small universes (USA, State, Countys). Thanks for giving me a little confidence that Americans might change!

Our kids went to Montessori School in preschool in the U.S. and they were taught to use authentic materials inside and outside the classroom. I was shocked when I walked in one day to watched my very rambunctious 3 year old cutting carrots with a real kitchen knife and cleaning up, serving his classmates, and pouring water from a porcelain pitcher and walk around to each classmate. Outside they had a play yard filled with woods, and other natural play structures.

I'm 51 now. But I grew up in a VERY rural area in Norway. With a grandfather that was a local butcher and a lumberjack. My father was/is a carpenter and a hunter (and earlier Home Guard, as in military) and a knife smith. My other grandfather was a WW2 veteran. I grew up with meat, knifes and guns. Playing in the forest, climbing trees...using knifes. If you do it the rigth way, there is nothing to be scared of. And it teaches you a whole lot of things in the process. :)

Same in Norway. It's so cute to watch them running around the forest, like little dwarves.

That`s a great Kindergarten in the middle of the nature in Denmark. Here in Germany there`s a saying that there`s no such thing as bad weather only bad clothing. And it`s true it`s so important that the children can play outside in nature and let their energy out. Climb in the trees etc., we did that in our childhood and it didn`t do any harm.😊💙

Hahaha so normal for Germany, I remember climbing on high trees everyday when I was child and it never was a problem for my parents or other adults. Often times alone with friends outside with no adults around as my parents gave me the trust to know myself and what I am capable of.

Have you ever heard about the zero emission recycling power plant in the center of Copenhagen, that has a public park and a ski slope on its roof? Denmark has many aternativve energy solutions, green planning and a very interesting biking culture too.

This is amazing! I work in Early Childhood in Australia and it is over-regulated!! And so many parents want their children to be bubble wrapped. And we have to take photos all day long. And write observations and learning stories to show what we are teaching them. And summative assessments (reports). It's exhausting with all the caring duties we have to do to.

I was born in 1964 and I was amazed by your amazement at the kid in the top of the tree at the start of the video. That was everyday play for kids of my era. Good times.

We have a few forest kindergartens in Slovakia too, but even in our regular kindergartens the kids go out everyday. If the weather is too bad, like heavily snowing or raining, they don't. My kindergarten was right next to a forest and we were going there almost every day. I remember playing there with sticks, leaves, acorns... I still remember that mushroomy smell of the forest. It was nice. Kids from kindergartens usually go play outside the building on a playground or they go for a walk in the streets.

(I am a german dad) When I was a child (about 6 to 10 years) it was absolutly normal for me to climb on trees much higher than the one in the beginning of the video. We trained jumping from 2 to 3 meeters to figure out how far we can go till it's getting tough to land. I also had a knife which l took into the woods on my own, when I was 6 or 7, no big deal. My parents simply showed me how to use it safely before I was allowed to take it with me alone. Today, as a parent of three, it is actually very hard for me to give my children the same freedom. As a parent you often see only danger not the opportunity to grow. I always try to remember how I was raised to overcome the urge to overprotect my children.

We have a few 'Forest Schools' in England now - particularly for pre-school age children. A lot of primary (elementary) schools have a 'Forest School' element to thir curriculum, where they spend some time each week (throughout the year) in a natural environment. It's great for physical development obviously, as well as teaching teamwork, investigative skills, and risk assessment, in addition to learning about nature and the environment itself. There are a lot of concerns generally these days that we are bringing up kids who don't know how to assess risk appropriately, because we have taken away all responsibility from them and made their world too 'safe'. With older children it's a great way to teach the traditional subjects like reading writing and math(s) in a stimulating and real-world context.

I'm so glad I grew up in the Bavarian Forest in the 1970s and, as the name of the region implies, the forest WAS our kindergarten, as there were no official kindergartens back then. We got instructed by our parents about things like, do not make a camp fire when it's dry, leave ant hills alone, and don't eat mushrooms you don't know, come home when the church bell rings. Now, in 2023, where our forest was is a huge hotel with a "foresty" interior, and the remains of our playground forest are really sad to look at.

I‘m so grateful my parents put me in a kindergarten where I was in the woods 24/7 made me learn a lot about nature and respect it more and not be disgusted by mud, bad weather or insects…they put a lot of trust in us kids and I think that made most of us very brave and independent

I love how you're so reflective. Very interesting to hear that you question everything you have experienced.

Thats why I love the north of my land. The north of Germany. in Schleswig Holstein and in the south of Dänemark children learn Deutsch and Danish at school. ....and english. Germans love these Vikings. I love the scandinavian people. ❤

We are all a little envious of Denmark! 🤣 No, really: they're great and we love them! Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden... they're doing some things right up there and Germany is lucky to be so close. It's even easier to pick something up there! 😅 Oh well, actually with all our neighbors (so also Switzerland, Netherlands, etc.). The ones in the north are just especially great! ❤️

Thanks for your reaction to this, I knew you would like it. I am from austria and we have this also here and in germany too. My daughter visited a "normal" kindergarden, but we have a weekend cabin in the mountains and she learned also at the age of three, four skiing, swimming, ice skating, climbing.....from/with us parents! She is now 24, spending her free time mainly in the nature (forest, mountain, lake...) and learns for her studies as an animal doctor sometimes sitting in a tree if possible!!😁

We have a lot of these forest kindergartens here in the Czech Republic, too, both of my children attended it and we never regretted it. I think it’s very good and healthy :) US have a lot to learn :)

What a magnificent concept to prepare children for the real life, teach them what they need to know, and let them have fun at the same time, isn't it? Well done, Denmark! I'm glad we also have these "outdoor" kindergartens here in Germany.

We used to have field trips every Friday into the backwoods of our school back in the 70's and 80's. Gods, I miss that. Climbing trees, catching salamanders and frogs, whittling sticks, starting camp fires, growing moss and fern gardens.

Greetings from Denmark. Love your deep dive into Scandinavian living

Another great reaction. :) For somethingelse thoughtprovoking, I would recommend to watch videos about prisons in Germany/ Scandinavia/ Finnland. Of course I don't know how you think about the prison system in the US and prisoners/ criminals in general but from my experience US Americans are shocked most of the time when they hear about and see prison systems where the focus is on rehabilitation and not punishment, so it might also be interesting for you. :)

climping in a treed is not dangerous. To have some guns in every houses are dangerous, or to have no full covered healthinsurence is dangeres.

It was nice to see how you reacted to one of the things we do differently in Denmark. It is also good to see how much of an inspiration this was/is to you. Wonderful reaction. Like and subscribe, with much ❤ from Denmark. Michael

I love walking through Wimbledon Common seeing the kids in their woodland classes, no matter the weather, none of them complaining, it’s clear they thrive on it!

I think when kids learn how to handle knives etc they learn to be responsible and know their limits. Noone is putting a group of children in this environment unprepared. They get help initially and then they get guidance and encouragement but can develop freely. Beautiful concept! When I was young, these just became a thing, so very rare. I was so envious and would have loved to be in one but it was expensive and very hard to find an open spot. They've gotten more and more popular and I love to see it! I meet them often when walking my dog and they're always respectful and keep their distance. When other children often run or scream around it or go to pet it without asking..

My son and daughter were both in forest kindergarten. The best thing there is for children. It stimulates the imagination, they learn respect for nature. Live every season. The children are more balanced. I can only recommend it to everyone

They are learning, just not in a formal way.

Such a great video. I am all for children spending as much time in their formative years outdoors learning about the natural world. Far better than on a games console I think.

This is a great reaction video. OP going from shock seeing the child in the tree to being actually envious of their way of doing things.

Common in Germany too. My daughter went to a Beach Kindergarten. About the same, but they also had the local beach (baltic sea) to go. Building sandcastles, fishing for small critters and observing them (and release them safely afterwards). They had small huts for each group though and sanitary facilities (that's what I didn't like about "regular" forrest kindergartens).

That explains the "shoe Thing" 😂 Greetings from Germany

This is the most perfect way for kids to learn and have fun outside. Excellent job!!

Love 2 see happy children. I'm 60 and that was how we played every day. Thanks for the flashback. Greetings from 🇮🇹🇧🇪🇪🇺

We have this in Sweden to, our kids spends most of the time outdoors. When my sons were in kindergarden i would pick them up at the beach during the warmer season of the year. That's true freedom.

Our kids (Germany) had a forest week every now and then. Spending whole days out in the forest. And by the way - there are many many good reasons to envy Denmark.

Dude that kid in top of the tree we used to do that all the time with friends. I'm from Lithuania. Few things to know, you can scale the whole tree patch leaning from one tree to another if the trees are young. It's a fall winter attraction since leafs and bugs makes it unpleasant in summer. The ground underneath is covered with dead leaves, wines, moss and other foliage plus its usually quite wet land around forest in Europe so ground is actually soft. Me and many have fallen from similar nights and you just shake it off as a child, thats a different story when you're heavy and rusty adult. Another method used to be climb to the top of lean tree and move the center of mass that is your body to one side and smoothly land on the ground with the tree top. Now if you picked a wrong tree you'd endup handing few meters above the ground crying until eventually you get tired and can't hold onto the tree anymore and drop down. Rins and repeat :D

As a German mom I’m still sad I couldn’t get a my child into a Forest kindergarten and had to send it to a normal kindergarten (where they only spend about four to five hours a day outdoors). Edit: And I wasn’t worried even once watching this video. 😉

Dude...thats exactly how we use to play when I was a kid in the 60's (in the US). My Grandfather gave me my first knife when I was 6yrs old (my Mom got mad but my Dad let me keep it). Those are old school values being taught.

this is wonderful. reminds me of being a kid in the 50's we were into everything and went everywhere....home for supper!!!

I was brought up in 50s England, outskirts of London. We played like this naturally. Climbing trees, playing in the rivers. But even my cousins in central London played outside, lots of great parks and of course bomb sites in London. I am surprised the woman from England was shocked

Active learning opening one's curiosity and potential versus passive learning

In the US, kids go from nursery to kindergarten after nursery at age 5. In most of Europe, kindergarteners are 3 and up or even younger. My grandson graduated to handling a knife to sharpen sticks for toasting marshmallows over an open fire a week before is fourth birthday. Readiness was determined by behaviour and skills, not age.

I'm glad you liked my suggestion. I'm German and there's a forest kindergarden 2 walking minutes away from my house, or maybe right behind my house if you count the whole forest. Unfortunately it's only open from 8am-2pm so anyone working more than 5 hours a day couldn't send their kid their. But I love the concept of the kindergarden itself.

Although this idea originated in Denmark, there are currently forest kindergartens also in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, China, Sweden, the UK, Italy, and Germany. There are also over 250 "nature preschools" operating in the US, though their regimes are generally less rugged.

It was me who suggested the video! I am happy you watched it! And I'm really glad you saw what an amazing way it is to learn skills and build confidence in themselves as young children.

That's practically how I grew up. Out in the woods, in the fields and wherever there were animals 😊 I loved climbing trees too. And yeah my mom often had heart attacks because of the things we got into ...

This was basically my experience as a child, without the supervision and time limits, admittedly I grew up on a beautiful farm and we knew our neighbours! We also learned from silly accidents and were aware of all our basic safety limits - including avoiding snakes! As long as we were home for dinner and our homework was done, we were free (until we were teens)! I remember I was tired one day and tried to take a shortcut through a barbed wire fence, I still have the leg scar to remind me! It was a wonderful life, and prepared me for living and surviving in a big busy city, confident to be unique and creative, and really explore the world and life with an open curious mind and open heart! Life's limits are simply personal choices, with a solid grounding in cause and effect! 🤗👍

I grew up in Poland in late 1980's - early 1990's, and this was our life. Outdoors, nature, testing yourself every day doing weird and often dangerous shit. And yes, I climbed the hell out of trees, me and my friends would spend hours 15 meters above the ground on these huge-ass pines. We'd make netting to make it safer, and sometimes take naps up there. In the spring and fall, with the winds, the swaying was insane, you'd fly a meter one way, two meters the other. I'd love to be 8 again :).

I remember document of british children playing on ruins after WW2. Someone said that children have native risk meter and when surrounding is too safe, the children adjust it by becoming more careless and then they also stay careless.

Norway has these too. Kids growing up active, breathing fresh air, learning to trust themselves, and play in nature, respecting nature. 100% better than 12 kids locked up in a room all day.

This is such a great idea - a lot of kids nowadays, especially city kids, have zero experience of nature and don't have much opportunities to play outside, it must be so beneficial for their development both physically and mentally, wonderful video.

My son goes to a forestry nursery and is just covered head to toe in mud daily and he just loves it hahaha just dress them appropriately for the weather and its fine. We're in the UK in the Midlands. Also, my son has his own working tools like hand drill, saw, plyers, etc and his own child safe Montessori knife to help chop vegetables and fruit for snack or dinner and hes 3. He climbs trees, accidentally falls in huge puddles and gets freezing, hes always getting random minor injuries like hit on the leg or whatever but theyre very safe. They cant join before 2 as far as im aware due to insurance but he loves it. We spend the weekends using the public footpaths through local fields or the Derbyshire dales and we just spend hours walking or he goes in the backpack carrier when he gets tired and we stop for a picnic or at a pub for lunch and its wonderful. He has an hour or so tv time or reading time during the day instead of a nap, but he just fidgets until he can get outside. I hope he always has this love of outdoors. We camp over winter with our log burner in our bell tent, all over the UK and as soon as hes old enough we will take him kayaking so we can start taking him down the canals and rivers with us on holidays. We did it with my dad and we hope he wants to carry this on as he gets older:)

My daughter goes to a forest kindergarten here in northern Germany and loves it 😁

I'd loved to be young again and run through the forests. That must be so much fun.

From 18mth old, I lived in a house that backed onto a wood - we spent vast amounts of time in there (even though it was private and we shouldn't be in there) - playing hide and seek, climbing trees, playing in streams - it was a great place to grow up.

Parents also gets more quality time with their kids. Pick them up from an indoor kindergarden and the kids are tired and grumpy. At home it's arguing and crying. In outdoors kindergarden the kids are more relaxed and happy when their parents pick them up. Also the family learn to appreciate outdoors life together in the weekends.

I'm glad you accepted my suggestion

I totally agree with this. As an Aussie mother of now, adult kids. If this was ever an option for me to send my kids to Forest Kindergarten, I definitely would have. These kids are learning life skills so important, IMHO . Well done Germany 🇩🇪

we have these is some schools in Tasmania, Australia. Our old school had 'forest school' every week from Kinder to grade 6, in Autumn the students would make 'forts' with what the students had found during forest school, the students love it

When I was in Kindergarten in Austria i used to basically sit the entire day in a cherry tree with my friends.

For my 7th birthday I received a .22 rifle, to replace my old “Slug Gun”. I used to disappear at daylight and get home before dark. I’d take my rifle, put a few cartridges in my pocket and go wandering. I never shot a person, a domestic animal, a road sign etc. I bought home a lot of food and pelts. By the time I was 10, in late Spring through to mid winter, I made quite a bit of money from pelts. Enough so that I bought a very good truck when I got my license, enough to fund 3 degrees.

I've never heard of this before - but I grew up a tomboy climbing trees etc in the 60s. This sounds like a great idea

To me, a person who grew up in Sweden. This seem completely normal! We don't have forest kindergartens but we spend ALOT of time outdoors. Learning how to cook, whittle sticks and learn about the forest and especially up here about the ice age and vikings. Which just spikes interest in learning and also being outdoors. In nature working with your hands and learning from failing and falling. Cuts, scuffs and bruises aren't something we worry about. It's just another day. Sure it's not for everyone and we still have that spoiled kid or scared kid who feels uncomfortable with the situation but that's how you adapt and learn and find what you like and don't like. More outdoors!

i worked in one of thise kindergartens and there was alot of great things but one i thing was the responsebillity the kids showed for each other its amassing

I think also that the power of the natural environment instills a natural sense of awe and understanding of what is dangerous! Natural boundaries

we built Treehouses, when we where children, in the top thirds of Larches. 15 to 20 Meters High, jeah, best childhood ever, learned how to adjust timing on 50cc mopeds with 8 to 9, learning how to drive a traktor same age or much earlier, how to use tools and much more, only 30 years back ;-) it was a very nice childhood :-) if i had kids, which I dont have (I Regret this most) , they would get a nice childhood, Kids need to explore try and learn :-)

Norway has about 8 percent of outdoor daycares, but our weather is a bit more extreme than Denmarks. Many kindergartens have at least one day a week of going on excursions to the woods or seaside, and spent hours every day outdoors. In the North, with the sami people, it's quite common to include the kids in activities like the seasonal reindeer butchering and so on. Some kindergartens keep animals like hens, rabbits, pigs, or sheep. The kindergartens provide guidelines to the parents on how to dress the children appropriately for the weather and season, with dry clothes available if they get wet or need something warmer. In Norway, children are not expected to learn to read, write or do math before starting 1st grade - kindergarten is daycare, not school. Although a lot of kindergartens DO go through the letters and numbers from 0-10 or 20 at least, it's not a necessity and can easily be incorporated into play and outdoor activities - writing in the sand, counting rocks and sticks, naming stuff starting with a certain letter, measuring weight and sizes... (I grew up 10 meters from a fjord, my mother raised three kids living on the beach and we all had rules and followed them pretty well, no accidents more serious than "getting wet" ever happened. :) )

My boys where both in a waldkindergarten. Thanks for reacting.

Even in "normal" kindergardens in Germany they often have forrest weeks which are quite similar to a forrest kindergarden. My kids also used to play in forrest kindergardens during the weekend, because no fences. You see huts and fire places and defence walls made out of sticks, colourful art in the trees and games build from wood.

There are also forest kindergartens in Germany. There, the children learn how to deal with nature. They also learn how to handle knives and fire. This helps them to better understand how to handle knives and fire correctly.

it is so fun for the kids. love them in germany. yes very dirty but a lot of fun for them^^

Great video Joel. I would have loved that type of kindergarten. As a kid, we lived on the edge of town across from woods, swamps, old orchards, farmland with no fear of bad people. The rule for all the kids was to be home by the time that the street lights came on. In the summer, we could be gone all day, with a packed lunch. My dad taught me to whittle wood with a knife young too - as well as that a dull knife is more dangerous than sharp one. Litigation, especially in America, has reduced these freedoms for parents, teachers, and especially kids. I don't know if we have anything like a forest kindergarten here. Very cool indeed, John in Canada

these kindergartens provide confidence and self-confidence....❤❤❤❤

Forest kindergartens are quite common in Germany, too. My childhood in rural Germany was very much like this.

Young people wouldn't know but this is basically how children grew up for millions of years. When I was a kid we climbed trees all days of the week. I got my first knife at the age of 6.