Kids Are Absolutely Starved For Positive Adult

Nature Is Often Overlooked As A Healing Balm For The Emotional Hardships In A Child's Life. You'll Likely Never See A Slick Commercial For Nature Therapy, As You Do For The Latest Antidepressant Pharmaceuticals. But Parents, Educators, And Health Workers Need To Know What A Useful Antidote To Emotional And Physical Stress Nature Can Be. Especially Now.

As The Young Spend Less Of Their Lives In Natural Surroundings, Their Senses Narrow, Physiologically And Psychologically And This Reduces The Richness Of Human Experience We Need Contact With Nature.

It's Easy To Blame The Nature-deficit Disorder On The Kids' Or The Parents' Back, But They Also Need The Help Of Urban Planners, Schools, Libraries And Other Community Agents To Find Nature That's Accessible.

We Tend To Block Off Many Of Our Senses When We're Staring At A Screen. Nature Time Can Literally Bring Us To Our Senses.

Studies Of Children In Playgrounds With Both Green Areas And Manufactured Play Areas Found That Children Engaged In More Creative Forms Of Play In The Green Areas.