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Monday thought of the week: a world outside of screens
A thought: Just 20 years ago, children played out a lot more: 40% would regularly play in natural places. Now only 10% do. That’s why I’m trying to “market” Nature. The sales of outdoor play to children have fallen off … Continue reading
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Kids playing without screens, or, Why would you bring video games to a park?
When we were in California in October, we met up at a park in the city of Woodland with my wife’s sister and family. It was a nice, large park with several playgrounds, decent expanses of grass to play in, … Continue reading
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Awesome “Unplug” billboard ads from Discover the Forest
I love these:
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Monday thought of the week: real nature v. tech nature
A thought: Robert Michael Pyle worries about the extinction of experience, a term he coined to refer to the loss of intimate experience with the natural world. Richard Louv describes our children’s lack of unstructured outdoor play and time to … Continue reading
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Monday thought of the week: best of both worlds
A thought: Ideally, we won’t sacrifice one for the other. We’ll play outside and visit parks and wilds on foot, and also enjoy technological nature, as a mental seasoning, turning to it for what it does best: illuminate all the … Continue reading
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Monday thought of the week: kids needs nature, not Facebook
A thought: Wringing our hands (while trying to type on a computer) about the info-blitzkrieg won’t help. It’s not going to stop. Instead, we need to find a cost-effective balancing agent. One source is right outside the door. The more … Continue reading
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“The Original Playstation” = Get Outside
Read my post from March 16, 2012, and you will see why I love this ad so much:
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Monday thought of the week: a wonderful discovery
A thought: A worm at work can be a wonderful discovery if you’ve never seen one outside of a flat-screen. – Timothy Egan, “Nature-Deficit Disorder,” Opinionator/New York Times (March 29, 2012)
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Monday thought of the week: because they have lived it
A thought: My friend is anxious to show my children their new program, “Acorn Pond.” Her daughter skillfully clicks on areas around the pond and the animals come out and tell us what they were doing. When she clicks on … Continue reading
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Gaming is the end of real play
At night, after Patrick goes to bed, my wife and I enjoy watching some shows on Hulu.com (we do not own a TV). We tend to watch The Daily Show and The Colbert Report most nights during the week. For the last … Continue reading
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