My guest today is Melissa Esposito, and we’re talking about the power of nature & the power of building a parent community. We discuss expanding the relationships that our adolescents have and the benefits of other adults in your children’s lives. Melissa shares about how and where to find a parent and family community so our youth have other adults in their life to support them. We talk about when you just don’t understand your kid. We wrap up this episode with some suggestions for places & opportunities to volunteer & connect with youth.

Melissa Esposito is cofounder and lead mentor of Feather and Frond forest school, an outdoor wilderness school in Bellingham, WA.

Takeaways:

• BUILD a village for your kid and BE the village for other kids in your community 
• What is wilderness school? 
• The overlap between toddler & adolescent years
• The auntie revolution
• We’re not meant to parent alone
• There’s capacity for community everywhere
• Showing up for kids that aren’t yours 
• There are many opportunities and places are available to volunteer & connect with children in your community 
• We’ve got to be in it for all of us and not just ourselves 
• The connection between nature & community

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