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 | The Future is Now!

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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

Eye opening

This book engages one to think about the subject of how to bring a child up in this world without preaching. It presents facts, and it presents the shortcomings of the information it has available, but asks the question what would be wrong with trying to change.

I have never read a book before that made me think as much as this book did. It rekindled old memories of childhood that were almost forgotten, it encourage me to strike up conversations with strangers who asked what I was reading about, and it converted me into an almost preacher for this book.

The book is not a non stop page turner, but it was fun to read; made my eyes well up with emotion several times; and most of all encouraged me to think about a subject that I did not realize had so much meaning to me.

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The Future is Now!

Richard writes with a determined, but quiet passion about the disconnect between our children and nature. You don't have to look very far to see how true and profound that disconnect is. See parents eating dinner with their children who are mindlessly thumbing their GameBoy or lost in their iPod; watch as young children repeal from the feeling of grass on their toes and teenage boys who don't want to get their sneakers dirty. These are but small, every day examples of how we are becomming plugged in and tuned out.
I would encourage you to stop reading this, click on the link buy the book,and read it, RIGHT NOW! Share it with someone. Share the message with your kid's teacher/principal, school board, city council, anyone and everyone, start a revolution. Make a personal promise to take your kids fishing this weekend, take a walk in the woods, listen, smell, share. The future is now, Louv has provided all of us with the most poignant of wake up calls.
Take your kids and GO OUTDOORS NOW!

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Affirmation

This is an incredible book. I am 64 years old and have grown up and spent my entire life in rural and country settings. This book affirms almost all of my outdoor and nature related experiences. It makes me want to share what I have experienced with others.

Last Child in the Woods

Every parent and teacher should read this book. It is excellent!

Last Child in the Woods

Just as people who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it, people who don't understand their roots and cultural heritage will be lost. Richard Louv show us how distancing ourselves from nature delivers dire emotional, and therefore health consequences. We are only a few generations removed from our roots in nature.

Research has shown for years that a simple houseplant increases creativity, but this is a great book for the lay reader. It gives a basic background and solutions.

I recommend it to everyone, but esp teachers and parents.

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