The book is written by an occupational therapist and she explains why play time and movement are so important for learning.

Those are some true quality “buy it for life” things! You can’t get back the early years. So enjoying them in nature is so important to our family

It’s an outside school! He goes to school on a farm, they have about 230 acres. Some of it is for growing crops, some of it is forests for hiking. Most of their learning takes place outdoors through question based learning. He will have to switch to public school next year because they don’t have an option for older kids. But it’s been a great experience! Check out the book “barefoot and balanced”

Hydro flask - over the years, we’ve all collected wide mouth bottles. They are pretty indestructible, my son goes to a nature school. It’s outside. The bottles have a few dings.

I also had an issue with Yeti bottle, it got moldy. I called them and they sent me a new lid. Call them!

My kids have held up with hydro flask for 3 years. I got 16 ounce coffee cup and replaced it with a straw lid.