Months and months ago, a fellow educator and advocate for outdoor play (that would be Vicky Flessner of PLAYceMaker) in Tennessee sent me a few ideas for blog posts. As I am wont to do, I hemmed and hawed over them for a long time, trying to find a way to organize them in my mind. With one of her prompts, she sent me an article by Henrietta Cook, the Education Editor for the Australian periodical The Age, titled “How fake nature in child care centers could be damaging”. Wit