What if more and more parents, grandparents and kids around the country band together to create outdoor adventure clubs, family nature networks, fami….

This tree house became our galleon, our spaceship, our Fort Apache...Ours was a learning tree. Through it we learned to trust ourselves and our abili….

Prize the natural spaces and shorelines most of all, because once they're gone, with rare exceptions they're gone forever. In our bones we need the n….

Something else was different when we were young: our parents were outdoors. I’m not saying they were joining health clubs and things of that sort, bu….

Nature is often overlooked as a healing balm for the emotional hardships in a child's life. You'll likely never see a slick commercial for nature the….

Environment-based education produces student gains in social studies, science, language arts, and math; improves standardized test scores and grade-p….

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 ha….

This seems clear enough: When truly present in nature, we do use all our senses at the same time, which is the optimum state of learning..

The physical exercise and emotional stretching that children enjoy in unorganized play is more varied and less time-bound than is found in organized ….

Studies of children in playgrounds with both green areas and manufactured play areas found that children engaged in more creative forms of play in th….

Time in nature is not leisure time; it's an essential investment in our chidlren's health (and also, by the way, in our own)..

In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace..

As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can find immeasurable joy in the birth of a….

There’s no denying the benefits of the Internet. But electronic immersion, without a force to balance it, creates the hole in the boat — draining our….

Use all of your senses..

I do not mean to imply that the good old days were perfect. But the institutions and structure--the web--of society needed reform,not demolition. To ….

Our kids are actually doing what we told them to do when they sit in front of that TV all day or in front of that computer game all day. The society ….

Numerous studies document the benefits to students from school grounds that are ecologically diverse and include free play areas, habitats for wildli….

Reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival..

Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication..

Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact..