It's no secret that parenting is all about finding balance: Letting your kids unleash their full creative energy while keeping your house from getting destroyed. Encouraging your kids to play freely while keeping them from hurting themselves. Letting them learn from their mistakes yet intervening to help them make good choices.
The true beauty of the newly-reopened and expanded Minnesota Children's Museum is that it reconciles these paradigms. Getting messy isn't an issue - it's encouraged. The play structures and activities are safe and - even with my avid climbers - there is little chance of injury. Opportunities to make discoveries on their own abound.
The museum understands that kids need the chance to JUST PLAY. Something children and their parents can all use a little more of.
