This Super Natural Adventures site is intended for educational, informational and entertainment purposes for the entire family. To make sure that this site stays safe and fun, we make the following promises:

The information we collect is non-personal (such as first name, age, city and state). When you or your child sends us a question or shares a photo or story, it comes directly to the mailbox of Maggie Jacobus, mother and creator of Super Natural Adventures. The senders e-mail address is never used for anything but direct correspondence back (i.e., to answer a question that has been asked).

If you submit stories, videos, photos, comments or anything else to us which is posted on our site, you will be identified on our site only by first name, age, city and state.
 If you send us an e-mail with a question or comment, or enter one of our contests, we will write back using your e-mail address. We will not sell or share your e-mail information with any third party If we know a visitor is under the age of thirteen, we will collect a parent's permission offline (by postal mail, fax or phone) before we mail any prizes, or collect or share personal information with anyone else.

Super Natural Adventures does not sell information collected by cookies* or use the information for commerce-related purposes.

*What's a cookie? A cookie is information a Web site puts on your computer's hard drive so that the site can remember your preferences or which pages you visited on that site.

When the SNA site is partially funded by outside sponsors, we will mark any underwriter logos with a "sponsored by" tag. We choose our underwriters carefully, to make sure that the company's products and services fit our Super Natural Adventures standards and are family-friendly.

The Super Natural Adventures site provides numerous links. Since we cannot be assured that links to outside sites follow our safety or privacy guidelines, we encourage families to discuss these choices together. We are not responsible for the content or safety and privacy practices at any sites linked from our pages.
 It is our goal to provide links that are child-appropriate.

Your family's use of this site is conditioned on your having accepted these terms. You should check back to this policy frequently, since it is subject to change from time to time, and your continued use of the site is conditioned upon your acceptance of any modifications hereto.

We want to make this a site families can enjoy together, and where parents and caregivers are happy to have their children interact and learn. If you have any comments or questions, we're happy to hear them. We are parents too and have many of your same concerns about kids on the Internet. Our direct communication together will help keep Super Natural Adventures a site we can all feel good about our children using.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this policy, send us an e-mail at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

If you haven't checked it out already, take at a look at the SNA blog.

If you'd like to read more about the Jacobus Family's Adventures Living In Costa Rica, check out my personal blog about our first years living here.

For an insight into the process that led to the decision to move in the first place, you may want to read an article I wrote for Athleta Chi.

Of course feel free to contact me directly at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

"As a society, we are raising the first generation of Americans to grow up disconnected from nature," according to the National Wildlife Federation in the United States.  It appears we've scheduled unstructured play time outdoors right out of our children's lives. 

Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods, has coined the phrase "nature deficit disorder" to refer to this growing trend of our kids growing up disconnected from nature. This trend is particularly disturbing, given that it's taking place at a time when what we need most is to be raising stewards of nature and the environment.