KidsOutAndAbout Boston
March 26, 2026

Local in-person events this weekend

FREE events this weekend

Local in-person events next weekend

*Easter Events and Activites
*80 Easter Basket Ideas That Aren't Candy
*Tips for Hosting An Easter Egg Hunt
*Create A Clue-Filled Easter Egg Hide-and-Seek

2026 Summer Camp Preview

Fun With Maple Syrup

It's CSA Sign Up Season!

Local Preschools

Big List of Private Schools

Post your organization and events to our site (It's all FREE!)

Sat, Apr 4: Boston Red Sox: Hello Kitty Day at Fenway Park
Sat, Apr 4: Easter Egg Hunt & Spring Celebration at Good Pickin' Farm
Sat, Apr 4: Kids at The Cabot: Laura Doherty & the Heartbeats
Sun, Apr 5: Brunch with the Easter Bunny - At Premiere on Broadway 
Fri, Apr 10: Shen Yun at Boch Center - Wang Theatre
Sat, Apr 11: Magnolias in Bloom: Music Inspired by Nature - At the Arboretum

Sat, Apr 11: Fairy Garden Days 2026 - At the Museum of Natural History in Roger Williams Park
Sat, Apr 11: Southwick’s Zoo Opening Day
Sun, Apr 12: Laurie Berkner Greatest Hits Solo Show - The Cabot

Wed, Apr 15: Happy Birthday Leonardo da Vinci! at Discovery Museum
Sat, Apr 18: Cherry Blossom Celebration - At the Arboretum
Sun, Apr 19: Wild Kratts Live 2.0 - Activate Creature Power! at Boch Center - Wang Theatre
Mon, Apr 20: April Vacation Week: Community Science at EcoTarium

Dear KidsOutAndAbout readers:

Before I had kids, one of my colleagues told me that fundamentally, a parent’s job is to point. At first, you point physically: You point at the waterfall and say “waterfall,” at the moon and say “moon,” at the flower and say “flower.” You’re helping a child connect sounds to objects, words to concepts, language to reality. But later, and really all the way through, the pointing becomes more metaphorical. Parenting is the ongoing work of connecting your child’s growing capacity to understand with a world that is, to them, forever expanding. As I had Madison and Ella, I came to think of this as being a tour guide to the world.

A good tour guide needs to know the landscape, of course. But even more important, a good tour guide needs to know the traveler. What can this particular child see right now? What are they ready for? What do they care about? What frightens them? What delights them? It's useful to remember that kids haven’t actually been here before: The world is brand-new to them over and over again, so what feels ordinary to us is often astonishing to a child. Tour guides who are doing their job well pay close attention to who their audience is and what they know, and that makes the pointing easier and more fun.

Spring is the perfect season to practice pointing. In spring, the world changes fast enough for kids to notice. Buds swell and burst. Birds return. Tiny green things push up through the dirt as if by magic. Day to day, the world becomes visibly more alive. If we point it out, kids can catch it happening in real time.

And spring does not arrive quietly. It comes as an avalanche of the senses: color, smell, birdsong, mud, wind, sunlight, thunder, petals, pollen, rushing water. So maybe that’s part of the job, too: not just to point, but to lean into it. To stand beside our kids in the rush of it all and say, Look! Here it comes.

—Debra Ross, publisher of KidsOutAndAbout.com, co-author of The Eclipse Effect: How to Seize Extraordinary Moments to Build Strong Communities

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