A Maine mom is teaching midcoast kids to play outside

BANGOR DAILY NEWS • January 4, 2022

On rainy, snowy or cold Saturdays, it can be very tempting to curl up on the couch with a book or with a favorite TV show to watch. But that’s not where you’ll find Maggie Goscinski and the band of hardy children who participate in her weekly outdoors group. No matter what the weather, they spend Saturday afternoons heading to Sears Island, the Belfast City Park or other nearby locales, and they don’t have a big agenda to follow. What they do is play, ideally with minimal adult guidance and direction, and definitely with no screens or devices in sight. That’s the way they all like it.