Mother Nature protects herself and anyone who spends anytime, at all, outside messing around in the natural world can attest to this. Turns out that nice green grass can give you quite the irritation, that rose bush has more ways to prick you than a barbed wire fence and that innocuous looking ivy with leaves of three, well, we all know what happens next.
Whether it’s poison ivy or berry brambles my kids will, no doubt, find the painful truth about Mother Nature and some of her defensive secrets whenever they are out and about. Thankfully, my kids are smart enough that it only takes one (or possibly two) encounters with nature’s wrath for them to remember that not everything we encounter in nature is best understood using our sense of touch.
the suburban naturalists 