Last child in the woods saving our children from nature-deficit disorder

In [this book, the author] talks with parents, children, teachers, scientists, religious leaders, child-development researchers, and environmentalists who recognize the threat and offer solutions. [He] shows us an alternative future, one in which parents help their kids experience the natural world...

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Main Author: Louv, Richard
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2006.
Edition:Rev., 1st pbk. ed.
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245 1 0 |a Last child in the woods :  |b saving our children from nature-deficit disorder /  |c Richard Louv. 
250 |a Rev., 1st pbk. ed. 
260 |a Chapel Hill, NC :  |b Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,  |c 2006. 
300 |a 334 p. ;  |c 22 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-323) and index. 
505 0 |a pt. I: The new relationship between children and nature. Gifts of nature -- The third frontier -- The criminalization of natural play -- pt. 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 -- pt. III: The best of intentions: why Johnnie and Jeannie don't play outside anymore. Time and fear -- The bogeyman syndrome redux -- Don't know much about natural history : education as a barrier to nature -- Where will future stewards of nature come from? -- pt. IV: The nature-child reunion. Bringing nature home -- Scared smart : facing the bogeyman -- Telling turtle tales : using nature as a moral teacher -- pt. V: The jungle blackboard. Natural school reform -- Camp revival -- pt. VI: Wonder land : opening the fourth frontier. The education of Judge Thatcher : decriminalizing natural play -- Cities gone wild -- Where the wild things will be : a new back-to-the-land movement -- pt. VII: To be amazed. The spiritual necessity of nature for the young -- Fire and fermentation : building a movement -- While it lasts. 
520 |a In [this book, the author] talks with parents, children, teachers, scientists, religious leaders, child-development researchers, and environmentalists who recognize the threat and offer solutions. [He] shows us an alternative future, one in which parents help their kids experience the natural world more deeply - and find the joy of family connectedness in the process. -Dust jacket. 
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