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August 4, 2009

Children and nature: Get kids outdoors

A yearling buck wears a momentary crown of mildweed seeds as it feeds in a meadow in the late Michigan autumn. Photo courtesy Carl R. Sams II

A yearling buck wears a momentary crown of milkweed seeds as it feeds in a meadow in the late Michigan autumn. Photo courtesy Carl R. Sams II

Children and nature used to blend well together when kids had forests and fields nearby to explore.

In “Hitting the Great Outdoors” in The New York Times, Nicolas Kristof writes that young people suffer from “nature deficit disorder,” and that environmentalism needs to be focused not only on preserving nature but also on getting people into it. If we’re divorced from nature, then there’s simply no constituency for it.

I agree with Mr. Kristof. We need to help kids spend less time on Facebook and more time enjoying the wonders of nature. View the article.

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Posted by Kirt Manecke on Tuesday, August 4, 2009, at 9:51 am. Filed under Environment. Tagged , , , , . Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.