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“If children are to grow into healthy, well-adjusted adults, nature needs to be integral to their everyday lives, from place-based learning at school to unstructured, unsupervised, even risk-prone play around home. Nature isn’t just a bunch of far-off plants, animals, and landscapes to learn about and visit once or twice a year. It’s an environment to be immersed in daily, especially during our childhood years.”
― How to Raise a Wild Child: The Art and Science of Falling in Love with Nature
― How to Raise a Wild Child: The Art and Science of Falling in Love with Nature
“One study found that the average American boy or girl spends four to seven minutes a day outdoors. Another placed the estimate at about thirty minutes of daily, unstructured, outdoor play.”
― How to Raise a Wild Child: The Art and Science of Falling in Love with Nature
― How to Raise a Wild Child: The Art and Science of Falling in Love with Nature
“Compared to kids confined indoors, children who regularly play in nature show heightened motor control—including balance, coordination, and agility. They tend to engage more in imaginative and creative play, which in turn fosters language, abstract reasoning, and problem-solving skills, together with a sense of wonder. Nature play is superior at engendering a sense of self and a sense of place, allowing children to recognize both their independence and interdependence. Play in outdoor settings also exceeds indoor alternatives in fostering cognitive, emotional, and moral development. And individuals who spend abundant time playing outdoors as children are more likely to grow up with a strong attachment to place and an environmental ethic.”
― How to Raise a Wild Child: The Art and Science of Falling in Love with Nature
― How to Raise a Wild Child: The Art and Science of Falling in Love with Nature
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