Of all the Norwegian phrases out there, I'd wager it's this one you'll encounter first. Most likely before you even land in the country, if you're (un)fortunate enough to be sat next to a native on your flight. Welcome to a new series here on Life in Norway – Shit Norwegians Say. Firstly, a hat-tip to Daniel-Ryan Spaulding for the name, borrowed from his awesome video “ Shit Expats in Norway Say“. Go watch and share if you haven't already! I was clearly not in Sweden anymore. Most of the people I now hung out with put me to shame with their in-depth knowledge of nature and advanced wilderness survival skills. One thing was for sure: If I ever stood face-to-face with the Apocalypse I would grab onto a seasoned Montanan in a heartbeat and not let go. That man ( Ronald Reagan, who was President of the USA at the time), he sits at that desk in the White House, and the button is there that can end the world: BOOM! My father's younger than him and we don't give him the controls for the television!

This idiom isn’t used to describe the weather, but it can help avoid confusion. Be careful when you say you have cold tootsies in German; this expression is the same in English. If you’re feeling doubtful of a situation, or put off, you might get cold feet. A typical example of this is someone bailing on their wedding. Bonus: So kalt ist es nicht – it’s not that cold After coming out of the water of the See (lake) during this hot weather, this could be fun one to use.

In the past 16 years I have read widely and attended many conferences in person and online and engaged with colleagues across theworld to help me develop my knowledge andunderstanding of the youngest children in our education system. I have been fortunate to visit settings across Europe thanks to differentfundingprogrammes andengage indiscussions with colleagues across the globe. These visits and interactions have had a huge influence on my practice. During all my time as a nursery teacher I felt myself drawn to one particular theorist - Friedrich Froebel,something about his ideas and approach just resonated with me.

This is quite a mean one. It means that you spinnt (are bonkers). But it can be funny due to the double meaning during these hot days! It is used jokingly in most cases. It is normally used a bit like this:How do you convince parents who aren’t necessarily outdoorsy themselves to get on board with outside parenting? Plato said that "the most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things."

For dry days, use regular, breathable shell pants and a windbreaker for the outer layer. Even if the temperature doesn’t call for shell pants, they save your child’s regular clothes from getting stained and torn.

There’s No Such Thing as Bad Weather is half personal story, half educational tool.

The UK has rising problems with childhood obesity and there are frequent news stories and articles questioning how much time British children actually spend outdoors. Many of the mums I’ve talked to are concerned about screen time, TV’s and video games… but are also not that keen on heading outdoors when it’s raining. Since I live in Wales, this is actually quite a lot of the time! It’s a challenge, especially in today’s urban environment, to find a good balance. I think a big part of the problem is also clothing and dressing appropriately and knowing how to approach less friendly weather conditions. There's nothing better than a fight, especially when you're watching it from a safe place. You can yell encouragement! Hit him with the left, he's a big Jessie! I always found this saying a bit obnoxious, and couldn’t really believe others were BAD at dressing for the weather (after all, it simply makes sense) – but after not only plenty of visits to European countries in both winter and summer, not to mention living in Dublin for more than 4 months, I realized this saying is not as obnoxious as it seems, because in some countries people DO seem to struggle with dressing. What wasalso sospecial was that so many ofthe staff Imet through thefirstproject werestillworking there and it was wonderful to reconnect with them over the few days. Thechildren were a delight to be around, confident andcompetent in theirenvironment, climbing trees, sliding down steepbanks, playing in shallow water in the forest and just very content andhappy. In 2008 it was one of the things I noticed the most - how happy thechildren were playing outdoors with very little resources and not a lot ofadultsinterference. Froebel saw autonomy as a key part of a young child and their experience inkindergarten and that is what Iobserved the most in 2008 and again in 2023 - children wereconfident to try thingsfor themselves but the adults areskilled enough to know when tostep in to assist or extendlearning opportunities. There were days that the staff had aparticular aim and hadgroups of children with them to help e.g building planters, weeding or repairing structures but otherwise thechildren are leftto playalone and develop their play as they want to without adult interference. By having 2 teachers in each class it also meant that 1 teacher could take asmall group into do more specific tasks e.g. precoding, whist theothers were safely outdoors with the other teacher and assistant.

As a Brit, I took David’s expression as a gag and nothing else; slightly obnoxious, but well within the normal boundaries of gags in this day and age. It is obvious to me he would never dream of saying that to anyone except perhaps as a running joke to Norwegian friends… and I’ve never met the bloke!Any Forest School experience follows a Risk–Benefit process managed jointly by the practitioner and learner that is tailored to the developmental stage of the learner. Thechildren all arrive into thekindergarten and goinside to their 'classroom', some arrive very early in the morning but the majority are all there by 9.15. Each class hadapproximately 14-15 children and 3 adults, 2 teachers and an assistant. At 9.15 both classes got dressed up for going outdoors, as I had previouslydiscovered each class spends a lot of time outside not justtheoutdoor class. The kindergarten has a huge outdoor area, divided intodifferent zones; atypicalplayground area with a slide, swings and sandpit, a steep bank and gravel area and a kitchen garden area. They also have use of lots of forest areas beside the kindergarten and above it.Some of the days the children got ready to go to a particular destinationlike the forest or woods, or out on thekindergarten boat (yes they have a boat!) whilst on other days theystayed inthe playground but used thedifferent areasthroughout the day. They might have started out in the kitchen garden or swings etc. The outdoor class ate theirlunch outside as much aspossible and as theyare theoldestchildren they didn't go inside for a resttime like the youngerchildren did afterlunch.