The October/November issue of The Green Parent magazine includes the latest in my series of interviews with parenting experts.

I spoke to Sharifa Oppenheimer, author of Heaven on Earth: A Handbook for Parents of Young Children, about encouraging creative play, getting your kids outdoors and even transforming your own approach to everyday household tasks.

To know that Mother Earth is keeping all her seed babies and leaf children warm in the cold winter, then wakens them to play in the spring breezes brings an immeasurable intelligent Universe into a comprehensible form for your child.

You can view a PDF of the feature here.