World Ranger Day for kids is a chance to meet a quiet kind of hero. Every year on the 31st of July, the world stops to say thank you to the people who protect the wild. Not the kind of hero in capes or films. The kind who wakes before dawn, walks miles through the…
My eldest identified a bird on the fence post the other morning before I’d even looked up. Short curved beak, he said, so it eats insects not seeds. He wasn’t quoting a fact card. He was reading the bird the way you might glance at someone’s shoes and make a guess about their day. Instinctively,…
By Katie Wormald | Kate on Safari | Wild Wisdom Safari for neurodivergent children is something almost nobody in the tourism industry talks about honestly. So, I recently asked a group of parents of neurodivergent children one simple question: what would stop you from taking your child on safari? One answer made me laugh out…
By Katie Wormald | Kate on Safari | Life in the Bush Open vehicle safari for families is one of the questions I am asked more than almost any other – and the honest answer might surprise you. Ask most people to picture a safari and they will imagine an open vehicle. Open sides, no…
By Katie Wormald | Kate on Safari | Wild Wisdom When did your child last sit quietly and watch something for ten minutes without being asked to? Not a screen. Not a video. Not something designed to hold their attention with noise and colour and constant movement. Just – something. A beetle. A bird. A…
By Katie Wormald | Kate on Safari | Life in the Bush | Raising Wild-Hearted Children Teaching children about the environment looks different when you live inside a game reserve. This morning, before the school run, my children watched a flock of guinea fowl at the front door. Nobody commented. Nobody reached for a phone….
By Katie Wormald | Kate on Safari | Wild Wisdom | Raising Wild-Hearted Children | Life in the Bush An educational safari for kids is, in our house, simply life. My children have been on safari hundreds of times – literally from birth. They have grown up inside iSimangaliso Wetland Park, one of Africa’s greatest…
By Katie Wormald | Kate on Safari | Raising Wild-Hearted Children There is a particular kind of morning that resets everything. My children pile into the back of the game vehicle before the sun has fully committed to the day. Within minutes they have built a fort in the boot out of blankets, wildlife books…
By Katie Wormald | Kate on Safari | Wild Wisdom We recently took part in something special. And for once, I was up before the sun had properly committed to the day! By 7am, my children were standing at the trailhead in St Lucia, binoculars around their necks, wildlife books tucked under their arms, a…
African wildlife books for children have a particular kind of magic – especially when you put the right one in a child’s hands at exactly the right moment. Finding the best african wildlife books for children has been one of the most rewarding parts of raising our three wildlings. Read on for our best African…
