10 Apr
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10 lessons from 10 years adventuring with kids

Posted By: Jen in Articles    

Have you and your kids had an adventure today? This week? This month? This year? No? Well it's easier to put the TV on isn’t it? It’s less hassle to go shopping. The kids are busy and the adults need some down-time. What’s so great about doing things together anyway?
But just pause for just a minute and remember all those promises you made back when the house was a giant...

5 Apr
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April 30-May 6th Screen-Free Week!

Posted By: Jen in Activities, Articles    
5 Apr
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Let Your Kids Get Dirty! – it’s good for them!

Posted By: Jen in Articles    
30 Jan
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An Interview with Richard Louv: Using the Nature Principle and Camps to Reduce Nature-Deficit Disorder – for Children and Adults

Posted By: Jen in Articles, News    

What progress have you seen in the movement to connect children and nature since you wrote Last Child in the Woods in 2005?

Last Child didn’t create the children and nature movement. That was already percolating, and America’s camps have always been part of that. But the book proved to be a useful tool, and I’m grateful for that. For the most part, it’s...

2 Jan
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Playing in the mud is okay at HumaNature School in Traverse City

Posted By: Jen in Articles, Educators, News    

Education in the Outdoors
 
 
 

Playing in the mud is okay at HumaNature School

Listen closely to the birds in the forest canopy, taste the edible roots and feel the wind in your hair. This is part of a primary satisfaction – the moments we experience first-hand, inaccessible by television, recollections in a magazine or Facebook...

29 Dec
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Kids need adventure. Parent need to teach them how.

Posted By: Jen in Articles, News    

Tuesday, 6 December 2011

Kids need adventure. Parents need to teach them how.

 
Kids want adventure. Parents think it's a good thing. So why doesn't it happen more?  
Half of kids have never camped out? According to this poll of 1500 parents and 1103 kids in the UK, over half of children have never camped out, not even in their back...

29 Nov
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London moves to reconnect children with nature

Posted By: Alison in Articles    

Posted on November 18, 2011 | 6 Comments

Sowing the seeds report front coverMy new report Sowing the Seeds: Reconnecting children with nature was launched at City Hall yesterday morning. The report, written for the London Sustainable Development Commission (the body that advises the Mayor of London on sustainability) sets out a new vision for children’s relationship with nature, and maps out an action...

25 Apr
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The great outdoors are just that for kids

Posted By: gko-admin in Articles, News    

Ask almost anyone over 35, in any part of the country, and they will invariably remember spending their childhoods in the same place: outside. Every day. All day. From morning until dusk, returning home only "when the streetlights came on," recalls Ashley Donahue, 38, from Roanoke, Va. Yet few kids today are able to experience nature that way. In only a generation,...