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If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war.

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There's a generation now that didn't grow up in nature. Some of these adults are parents and they know that nature is good for their kids but they don't know where to start.

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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.

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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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A lot of people think they need to give up nature to become adults but that's not true. However, you have to be careful how you describe and define 'nature.'

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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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Kids and adults pay a price for too much tech, and it's not wholesale.

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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.

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Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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