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05/06/2026

Today is World Environment Day. 🌍

Inspired by Nature. For Climate. For Our Future.

I want to say something that I believe deeply - as a former paediatric nurse, as a health visitor, as a mother of three children growing up in one of Africa's most extraordinary ecosystems, and as someone who has spent the last decade watching what the natural world does to children who are given access to it.

The climate crisis will not be solved by the generation currently in power.
It will be solved - if it is solved - by the children alive right now.

The 5-year-old who learns to turn off the tap when they brush their teeth to save water.
The 7-year-old who watches a turtle nest on a beach and feels something shift inside them.
The 9-year-old who asks why the rhino is endangered and doesn't accept a vague answer.
The 11-year-old who starts a litter-picking group at their school because it seemed obvious.

These children are not waiting for permission to care.

They are already caring.

Our job - as parents, as educators, as anyone who loves a child - is to give them the experiences that make caring feel natural.

Not guilt. Not fear. Not statistics.
Curiosity. First. Always curiosity first.

Happy World Environment Day. Go outside today and take a child with you to enjoy being outdoors. 🌿



Let Africa teach your children what the world is made of.

04/06/2026

Tomorrow is World Environment Day. 🌍

Inspired by Nature. For Climate. For Our Future.

Here are five things you can do WITH your children tomorrow that take under ten minutes each:

🌿 1. Go outside and find one living thing you've never noticed before. Photograph it. Look it up together.
🌱 2. Plant something. Anything. A seed in a pot on a windowsill counts.
💧 3. Turn off taps while brushing teeth - and explain why. Every drop of fresh water is part of a system children can understand.
🦋 4. Watch something wild for five minutes without disturbing it. An ant. A bird. A spider. Time it properly.
📖 5. Read one page of a wildlife book together before bed.
None of these cost anything. All of them matter.

The children who grow up doing these small things are the ones who grow up to fix the big things. 🌿

👉 Free Safari Animal Mini Pack — link in bio 🐘

Let Africa teach your children what the world is made of.

02/06/2026

Fun animal facts to make your children laugh and don't hold it against us if they tell other people at the moment inopportune moment! 🐘

🦛 Hippos can outrun a human.
🦒 Giraffes only sleep for 4-5 hours a night.
🐆 Leopards drag their prey UP trees so lions can't steal it.
🦁 A lion's roar can be heard 8km away.

You have been warned! 😅

Save this post — you'll want to refer back to it when it happens.

👉 Free Safari Animal Mini Pack
https://kate-on-safari.kit.com/free-safari-pack🐘

Let Africa teach your children what the world is made of.

01/06/2026

We found this busy ant colony hard at work on a branch out on one of our walks.

They are African Weaver Ants - and if you look carefully, you can see they're pulling leaves together to build a nest. They hold the edges in place with their bodies while other ants use silk from their own babies to stitch it all shut.

They work super fast - so I have slowed down the footage just so we don't all feel sick watching it!!!

My kids stood and watched this for twenty minutes.

No screen.

No prompting.

Just pure fascination (and a 101 questions!).

And when I asked them what they noticed, my youngest said: "They're all helping each other, Mum."

She's seven.

And Africa just taught her something about friendship that I couldn't have explained half as well.

No ant asks whether their job is important enough.

They just show up for the one next to them. Every time.

That's the kind of lesson I want my children to grow up knowing in their bones - and I'm so grateful we get to learn it like this.

🐜

How do you talk to a child about death without terrifying them?You start with a dung beetle.No, really. You start small....
26/05/2026

How do you talk to a child about death without terrifying them?

You start with a dung beetle.

No, really. You start small. You start with the cycle.

In the bush, death isn't hidden from children. They see the bones and the carcasses. They see the vultures circling.

They understand that when an animal dies, it feeds something else. The soil. The insects. The next generation.

H's comment about crocodiles not dying of old age led us into the most beautiful conversation about what it means to grow old, what "old age" actually is, and why humans are different from crocodiles.

It wasn't a morbid conversation. We had to talk about what death means because of Nanny going to heaven late last year.

The mistake we make is thinking death is too heavy for children.
It isn't - not when it's part of a bigger picture.

And nature gives you that picture every single day.

If you want your child to grow up curious about the natural world, start with my free Safari Animal Mini Pack.

It's the first step. Link in bio - kit.com

5 things animals can teach your children about friendships"🐘 Elephants grieve when they lose a friend. They teach childr...
20/05/2026

5 things animals can teach your children about friendships"

🐘 Elephants grieve when they lose a friend. They teach children that it's OK to be sad when friendships change.

🐬 Dolphins protect injured members of their pod. They show children what it means to look after someone who's struggling.

🦓 Zebras stand in a group so their stripes confuse predators. They teach children that sometimes we're stronger together.

🐆 Leopards are solitary and thrive alone. They show children it's OK to enjoy your own company.

🐝 Bees work as a team where every member matters. They teach children that everyone has something to contribute.

Save this for later!

And if your child loves wildlife facts, my Safari Activity Packs on Etsy are packed with them. https://kateonsafari.etsy.com

20/05/2026

Forget theme parks. The most educational holiday you can give your child has no queues, no screens, and no gift shop.

A safari teaches children more in a single game drive than most classrooms cover in a term.

Geography, biology, ecosystems, animal behaviour, conservation - and they don't even realise they're learning because they're too busy whispering "is that a rhino?"

I've written a full blog post on why a safari is the most educational holiday you can give your child - including book recommendations to get them excited before you go.

Read it here https://kateonsafari.com/educational-safari-for-kids/🌿

My friend North came to visit from the UK. She couldn't believe how much I've changed.She watched me swerve around a go...
20/05/2026

My friend North came to visit from the UK. She couldn't believe how much I've changed.

She watched me swerve around a goat on the road like it was nothing. She watched me calmly remove (smack with my flipflop 🙈) a cockroach from the kitchen. She chuckled as we fed the mongoose we were fostering until we could take to a rehab centre.

And she said: "I can't believe how much you've adapted."

The thing is, when you live here, you don't notice it happening.

You just… adjust.

The way you drive (avoiding taxi's, and goats). The way you deal with wildlife in your house (capturing, smacking or sho'ing out the door). The way you have to close doors and windows so the monkeys don't get in.

It took someone from my home country to hold up a mirror and show me how far I've come.

Africa doesn't ask if you're ready. It just teaches you.

Want to see more of what life in the bush actually looks like?

Follow along - this is the unfiltered version.

How do you explain s *x to little people without it being awkward? You let nature do it first.Living in the bush, my chi...
19/05/2026

How do you explain s *x to little people without it being awkward?

You let nature do it first.

Living in the bush, my children have grown up watching animals mate, give birth, and raise their young. It's not something I've had to sit them down and announce. It's just…life.

They've watched impala rams compete for females.
They've asked why the baboons are doing "that."
They've seen a mother warthog with a line of tiny piglets.

And every single time, it's opened a conversation. Not an awkward one - a natural one.

Because in the context of the bush, reproduction isn't embarrassing. It's survival.

I know not every family lives surrounded by wildlife. But you can still use nature to open these doors.

Books about animal life cycles. Documentaries. Even a trip to a farm.
The point is: nature normalises the things we overthink.

My A–Z Safari Lunchbox Notes are a simple way to weave nature facts into your child's day - and you'd be amazed where the conversations go.

Find them on my Etsy shop https://kateonsafari.etsy.com/listing/4486382054

We've started a game in our house and it's become my favourite parenting hack.It is called What Would You Be?The game is...
18/05/2026

We've started a game in our house and it's become my favourite parenting hack.

It is called What Would You Be?

The game is simple. You ask each other if you could be any ..... land mammal/ocean creature/bird/primate/insect etc....what would you be and why?

It sounds like a bit of fun (and it is), but what actually happens is conversations take an interesting turn.

It opens them up - about survival, about why animals behave certain ways, about what qualities we admire - you end up in the most unexpected places.

Last week we ended up talking about why some animals live alone and some live in groups.

Which led to a conversation about friendships.

About why some people are like elephants (loyal, protective, family-first) and some are more like leopards (independent, quiet, strong on their own).

Whilst others are like snakes ( camouflage well but will bite if provoked).

You don't need to live in Africa to play this. You just need curiosity and five minutes.

Give it a go and see what your child comes up with!

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