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• As the young spend less of their lives in natural surroundings, their senses narrow, physiologically and psychologically and this reduces the richness of human experience we need contact with nature.

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  Needs, Natural, Surroundings

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

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  Mother, Father, Communication

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• The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that the number of overweight adult Americans increased over 60 percent between 1991 and 2000. According to CDC data, the U.S. population of overweight children between ages two and five increased by almost 36 percent from 1989 to 1999.

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  Children, Data, Two

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.43, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• A lot of people think they need to give up nature to become adults but that's not true. However, you have to be careful how you describe and define 'nature.

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  Giving Up, Thinking, People

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• I do not trust technology. I mean, I don't think we're in any danger of kids, you know, doing without video games in the future, but I am saying that their lives are largely out of balance.

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  Mean, Kids, Technology

  "Saving Kids from 'Nature Deficit Disorder'". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 25, 2005.

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• 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 handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war.

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  War, Kids, Emotional

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• Increasingly the evidence suggests that people benefit so much from contact with nature that land conservation can now be viewed as a public health strategy.

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  Nature, Land, People

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• Nature has been taken over by thugs who care absolutely nothing about it. We need to take nature back.

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  Taken, Thug, Who Cares

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.118, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• We do not raise our children alone.... Our children are also raised by every peer, institution, and family with which they come in contact. Yet parents today expect to be blamed for whatever results occur with their children, and they expect to do their parenting alone.

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  Children, Parent, Peers

  Richard Louv (1990). “Childhood's Future”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If we desire a kinder nation, seeing it through the eyes of children is an eminently sensible endeavor: A city that is pro-child,for example, is also a more humane place for adults.

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  Children, Eye, Cities

  Richard Louv (1990). “Childhood's Future”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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