Passport to Adventure encourages children and their families to get outdoors and explore, while promoting local events, programs, and nearby natural destinations.  Children from a science class visit the Pioneer Park Forest Preserve in Naperville in 2002. (Tribune file photo) |
By Julie Deardorff, Tribune newspapersMay 18, 2011
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The outdoors: Can nature really improve health?
What would life be like if we were as immersed in nature as we are in electronics? In Richard Louv’s world, we’d be happier and...
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The following articles and research studies are recommended by Children, Nature and You as being helpful when people of influence need “proof of evidence” that connecting children to nature is more than just a “nice thing to do”. What are the consequences of a childhood removed from nature? At a time when children play more behind screens than outside, PLAY AGAIN...
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Targeting “tweens,” the U.S. Forest Service and Ad Council Launch National Campaign
U.S. Forest Service and Ad Council Launch National Campaign to Re-connect Children with Nature PSA Campaign Debut Coincides with National Get Outdoors Day New York, (June 10, 2009) /PRNewswire/ — Children in the U.S. spend fifty percent less time outdoors than they did twenty years ago, according to the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. In...
By JANE E. BRODY Ask mothers why babies are constantly picking things up from the floor or ground and putting them in their mouths, and chances are they’ll say that it’s instinctive — that that’s how babies explore the world. But why the mouth, when sight, hearing, touch and even scent are far better at identifying things? When my young sons were exploring the streets...
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