Welcome to the Boulder Homeschool Park Day!

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The Boulder Homeschool Park Day (a/k/a the Boulder Park Day) is a park day for homeschooling families. It is open to all homeschool families of all homeschooling styles, all faiths, and all ages. You do not have to live in Boulder to attend the Boulder Park Day!

The Boulder Park Day is all-inclusive, and fosters an atmosphere tolerance and sharing.

The Boulder Homeschool Park Day is a safe and positive environment for our community of homeschooled children. We have a simple set of guidelines by which everyone is expected to abide:

No violent play.

No weapons play - either with toy weapons, or using other items as if they are weapons.

No name calling.

No swearing.

No exclusionary play. It's ok for children to play in a group on their own, but it's not ok for children to intentionally make others feel excluded and unwelcome.

Aggressive behavior on the part of either children or adults will not be tolerated. Parents are expected to take responsiblity for the behavior of their children. Those who do not may be asked to leave.

One of the most awesome things about homeschooled children is their ability to work through and negotiate differences of opinion or disagreements. We encourage this manner of settling differences, and it is expected that parents will assist their children in resolving differences in this manner.

Boulder Park Day is a safe, gentle environment. We try to model the same behavior that we value and encourage in our children. This means using positive parenting, and modeling positive dispute resolution skills. Verbally abusing or striking a child, or threatening to do so, has no place at Boulder Park Day.

Please be careful when discussing grown-up topics with other parents to ensure that no "little ears" are around - it may be that you feel that your child is ready to hear about such topics as war, divorce, sex, etc. - but another parent may not wish their children to be exposed to such topics yet.

If you believe that you or your child may be ill and contagious, please don't bring the illness to park day. Some children are more susceptible to illness than others, and what may be a simple cold for you could mean a week in the hospital for a child who has asthma, or a compromised immune system.