Kids And Adults Pay A Price For

When We Raise Our Children, We Relive Our Childhood. Forgotten Memories, Painful And Pleasurable, Rise To The Surface.... So Each Of Us Thinks, Almost Daily, Of How Our Own Childhood Compares With Our Children's, And Of What Our Children's Future Will Hold.

The Centers For Disease Control (cdc) Reports That The Number Of Overweight Adult Americans Increased Over 60 Percent Between 1991 And 2000. According To Cdc Data, The U.s. Population Of Overweight Children Between Ages Two And Five Increased By Almost 36 Percent From 1989 To 1999.

This Tree House Became Our Galleon, Our Spaceship, Our Fort Apache...ours Was A Learning Tree. Through It We Learned To Trust Ourselves And Our Abilities.

This Seems Clear Enough: When Truly Present In Nature, We Do Use All Our Senses At The Same Time, Which Is The Optimum State Of Learning.

Each Of Us-adult Or Child-must Earn Nature's Gift By Knowing Nature Directly, However Difficult It May Be To Glean That Knowledge In An Urban Environment.