Last child in the woods : saving our children from nature-deficit disorder
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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... Full description
Table of Contents:
- 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.