Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder | Richard Louv

Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder | Richard Louv | Excellent for Environmental Educators and Especially Parents!

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	Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder Richard Louv Algonquin Books, 2008 - 390 pages average customer review:based on 80 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

You'll Enjoy this Book if...

You'll enjoy this book if:

1. You work with children. Educators of all types will be inspired by this book. Teachers will be provided with firm reasons for taking their students outside for exploration, discovery and study. Teachers will also find the author's thoughts on the way nature is often taught now (as a crisis or a danger) fascinating. Scout leaders, after-school activity teachers, camp councilors, and daycare providers will be also be inspired to either continue the outdoor activities they already do-- or to add more nature exploration to their programs.

2. You are a just "let them play" type parent. Parents who intuitively know that mud-pie baking trumps most other after-school activities will enjoy having words put to their intuition. This group of parents often feels a bit guilty because we don't sign our kids for daily structured activities and clubs. Our kids are just too busy digging up rocks, wandering the backyard, looking for earthworms and mud puddle jumping. It is, quite simply, a relief to know that these activities are not only fun and relaxing for the family, they are actually emotionally and mentally healthy!

3.You are an environmentalist. Lastly, this book will provide conservationists with more evidence in their fight to preserve and protect natural areas. Often, conservations feel so much love for natural areas that they begin to feel that the need to preserve them is self-evident to everyone. Unfortunately, it's not! This book provides a myriad of concrete reasons for preserving natural spaces. The author also provides marvelous ideas for creating contact with nature in urban areas.

P. Gould (author of Feeding the Kids: The Flexible, No-Battles, Healthy Eating System for the Whole Family)

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Excellent for Environmental Educators and Especially Parents!

I am a naturalist who works primarily with educating children about nature, so I bought this book. It is excellent and has inspired me to one day run a facility involving nature therapy. I am looking into selling this book at our nature center because I believe any and all parents should read it for the health and well-being of both their children and the planet.

The book is easy to read, I finished it reading casually in about a week, but it has many great insights as well as helpful statistics and other information relevant to "nature defecit".

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Must read

This is a must read for every parent with children. We remember our connection with nature and yet our children have lost it. Without our conscious effort to reconnect them with nature they will move further and further away.

NeoPagans and Wiccan should read this book too!

As a pagan parent, and as a life long environmentalist, and nature lover, I recommend that all Pagans should read this book. I often hear Pagan Parents asking each other, "What do we teach our kids?" I understand that we don't want religion taught to our kids the way it was taught to us. I suggest we start with the type of "Nature Reunion" that this book calls for. How can anyone child or adult understand an Earth Based Spirituality if they don't have a passion for the earth? How do you feel that connection with all the living things if you don't even know who your "Nature Neighbors" are? Let your kids build tree houses and get dirty, and get out a field guide and learn the names of the animals, birds, plants, and even bugs that live all around you! Now this book does talk about nature spirituality but it does avoid the topic of Paganism, and at times even makes statements against "nature worship" but I feel it's from a lack of understanding on the author's part, it is a main stream book after all. His message about letting our kids play outside is still valid. Please forgive him on his ignorance of our beliefs.

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Great read

Having grown up outdoors most of my life, I thought this book was insightful and a signpost to stop and think about my own daughter and how she'll grow up appreciating outdoors the same way I do.

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