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. My wife said "I want to sell the house and buy a yacht". I said "What?! You do realise I live here? Comedian, Scottish guy. There's 3 kids over there, each have their own rooms. C'mon, I'll show you, they live here too."

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: There’s No Such Thing as Bad Weather is practical with informative tips, but it’s also motivational and optimistic. It doesn’t focus on the negative, but rather looks to what we can do as parents and the choices we can make. Whilst we can’t change the school system, we do control what our children experience from a young age. We can get them outdoors interacting with nature on a regular basis. As parents, we can choose to walk to school, even in the snow and rain. We can put on our waterproofs and layer it up and play in the mud and rain rather than spending the winter indoors – something I’m quite guilty of! Don't buy one of those baby intercoms. Babies pretend to be dead. They're bastards, and they do it on purpose. That said, we never went into this with the intention of being ‘fair weather’ Players. It’s such an enjoyable, communal punctuation to our weeks that we’re determined to grit our teeth and make it through the challenging months. Tips for winter street play and keeping warm…People in Germany aren’t known for their love of small-talk… unless, that is, you get them talking about the weather. Come rain or shine, you’ll get a dialogue out of it. Knowing how to talk about temperature and precipitation can also come in handy when describing emotions. As the seasons change, so do the opportunities to flex your German skills. Wouldn’t you love to be able to comment on the day auf Deutsch? Well, what better way to do this than to learn some German weather idioms. From marvelling at the surprise summer sunshine, to complaining about the cold winter chill, to using weather to make your point, learn these German expressions and watch your small-talk opportunities soar! Let’s delve in. 1. Es regnet in Strömen – It’s raining in streams In preschool a lot of classes already use an online tool to keep in touch with parents and share what is going on in the classroom so that makes it easy to switch to home learning in many ways but thispandemic has made it harder to let parentsexperience a play basedcurriculum in person. This reminds me of how tribal people living in the jungle could not put their babies down because the forest floor was so deadly, and so they carried them for the first year or two, never letting their feet touch the ground. This was a very practical parenting strategy for them, but it would sound insane to Swedes who want their kids down on the grownd getting dirty as that is good for their immune system. I would be curious to know about different microbes in different places too. For example, Swedish parents think bare feet are a must. But would bare feet be a good idea in the tropics where hook worm isn't just a fear-mongering story on the news but a reality? I love that idea that there is no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing, but at the same time, that just cannot be true in Nicaragua. There is no clothing that can fix hot, humid temperatures. The thing I liked least about this book was that the author came off as the brainwashed Swede automaton stereotype. Sweden is the best country in the world and everything they do is right. Women should work outside the home. Children should be raised by the state in forest schools. And everyone should be an environmentalist and a vegetarian. I say, ‘in this day and age’, but I’m reminded of an excellent article I read about German humour (to Brits a famous unicorn’s feather – but this article made it all crystal clear!), and how their tendency to put long words together and their grammar precludes improvised and instant plays on words the Brits have historically, so one of their only options in humour is to throw out THE single most obnoxious potential outcome of any situation which is so horrifically incongruous the only thing to do is laugh at it! I thought it was a good article anyway, and although it more than likely includes confirmation bias, anecdotally, I have found it to be true and agreed upon with three male German friends (two of whom also agreed with the analysis) but very different with one female.

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 Everystaffmember could say why theyhad this approach - they knewchildren need to have hands onlearningexperiences before you put pencils into theirhands and ask them to sit at desks - they all knew of and referred toFroebel's Principles. 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.To what extent is the fact that kids don't play with other kids in their neighborhoods anymore related to the fact that ... people have different values/cultures from their neighbors and don't actually want their children at their houses acquiring their values? What if we are giving lip service to multiculturalism but it actually makes us miserable? It's not legal to control who lives in our neighborhoods so ... private schools and private activities were invented. The last phase of mourning is acceptance. For a while I considered fighting the charge, but then I decided to let it go and pay the fine. The rules are the rules are the rules, and I had unwittingly broken them. When I talked to John Bacone, director of the IDNR’s Division of Nature Preserves, about my experience, to my surprise I found that we essentially agreed on the problem. “Kids don’t play outside like they used to,” he lamented. “We need to get them out there again so they don’t just stay inside and play video games.”