American - Author | 1949 -
Now, more than ever, we need nature as a balancing agent.
Richard Louv
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Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication.
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Our kids are actually doing what we told them to do when they sit in front of that TV all day or in front of that computer game all day. The society is telling kids unconsciously that nature's in the past. It really doesn't count anymore, that the future is in electronics, and besides, the bogeyman is in the woods.
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I do not trust technology. I mean, I don't think we're in any danger of kids, you know, doing without video games in the future, but I am saying that their lives are largely out of balance.
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When you're sitting in front of a screen, you're not using all of your senses at the same time. Nowhere than in nature do kids use their senses in such a stimulated way.
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Natural playgrounds may decrease bullying.
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Other species help children develop empathy.
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Kids and adults pay a price for too much tech, and it's not wholesale.
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These days, unplugged places are getting hard to find.
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We are telling our kids that nature is in the past and it probably doesn't count anymore, the future is in electronics, the boogeyman is in the woods, and playing outdoors is probably illicit and possibly illegal.
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No other youth group like the Scouts has trained so many future leaders while at the same time being a nature organization with its outdoor focus.
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Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact.
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