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Last Child in the Woods
Saving Our Chilren from Nature-Deficit Disorder
Richard Louv
Taken from Front Flap:
"'I like to play indoors better 'cause that's where all the electrical outlets are,' reports a fourth-grader. Never before in history have children been so plugged-in - and so out of touch with the natural world. In this groundbreaking new work, child advocacy expert Richard Louv directly links the lack of nature in the lives of today's wired generation - he calls it nature deficit - to some of the most disturbing childhood trends, such as rises in obesity, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), and depression.
"Some startling facts: By the 1990s the radius around the home where children were allowed to roam on their own had shrunk to a ninth of what it had been in 1970. Today, average eight-year-olds are better able to identify cartoon characters than native species, such as beetles and oak trees, in their own community. The rate at which doctors prescribe antidepressants to children has doubled in the last five years, and recent studies show that too much computer use spells trouble for the developing mind."
Richard Louv
Taken from Front Flap:
"'I like to play indoors better 'cause that's where all the electrical outlets are,' reports a fourth-grader. Never before in history have children been so plugged-in - and so out of touch with the natural world. In this groundbreaking new work, child advocacy expert Richard Louv directly links the lack of nature in the lives of today's wired generation - he calls it nature deficit - to some of the most disturbing childhood trends, such as rises in obesity, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), and depression.
"Some startling facts: By the 1990s the radius around the home where children were allowed to roam on their own had shrunk to a ninth of what it had been in 1970. Today, average eight-year-olds are better able to identify cartoon characters than native species, such as beetles and oak trees, in their own community. The rate at which doctors prescribe antidepressants to children has doubled in the last five years, and recent studies show that too much computer use spells trouble for the developing mind."
- Part I: The New Relationship Between Children and Nature
- Gifts of Nature
- The Third Frontier
- The Criminalization of Natural Play
- Part II: Why the Young (and the Rest of Us) Need Nature
- Climbing the Tree of Health
- A Life of the Senses: Nature vs. the Know-It-All State of Mind
- The "Eighth Intelligence"
- The Genius of Childhood: How Nature Nurtures Creativity
- Nature-Deficit Disorder and the Restorative Environment
- Part III: The Best of Intentions: Why Johnnie and Jeannie Don't Play Outside Anymore
- Time and Fear
- The Bogeyman Syndrom Redux
- Don't Know Much About Natural History: Education as a Barrier to Nature
- Where Will Future Stewards of Nature Come From?
- Part IV: The Nature-Child Reunion
- Bringing Nature Home
- Scared Smart: Facing the Bogeyman
- Telling Turtle Tales: Using Nature as a Moral Teacher
- Part V: The Jungle Blackboard
- Natural School Reform
- Camp Revival
- Part VI: Wonder Land: Opening the Fourth Frontier
- The Education of Judge Thatcher: Decriminalizing Natural Play
- Citites Gone Wild
- Where the Wild Things Will Be: A New Back-to-the-Land Movement
- Part VII: To Be Amazed
- The Spiritual Necessity of Nature for the Young
- Fire and Fermentation: Building a Movement
- While It Lasts