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	List Price: $24.95 Our Price: $39.86 Your Save: $ ( % ) Availability: Manufacturer: Algonquin Books
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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 155.418 EAN: 9781565123915 ISBN: 1565123913 Label: Algonquin Books Manufacturer: Algonquin Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 336 Publication Date: 2005-04-15 Publisher: Algonquin Books Studio: Algonquin Books
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Excelent Book Comment: Anyone who has kids, works with kids or ever was a kid (yes I mean everyone) should read this book! Customer Rating: Summary: Excellent book for an environmentalist! Comment: The book was in mint condition and arrived just in time to be given as a Christmas gift! Customer Rating: Summary: I'm a true believer Comment: Since I live in the woods and my grown children, with my grandchildren all live in the city, I purchased multiple copies of this book as gifts. Hoping to see them all more. Customer Rating: Summary: Inspiring Comment: I think every single parent should read this book and think deeply about the education we are providing our children. Customer Rating: Summary: Required reading for parents Comment: Every parent who grew up in the outdoors should read this and remember what it meant to be a child. Generations are loosing their connection to the land and the land is what made America great. Read it and get back out there with your children, or simply get back out there yourself. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: "I like to play indoors better 'cause that's where all the electrical outlets are," reports a fourth-grader. Never before in history have children been so plugged in—and so out of touch with the natural world. In this groundbreaking new work, child advocacy expert Richard Louv directly links the lack of nature in the lives of today's wired generation—he calls it nature deficit—to some of the most disturbing childhood trends, such as rises in obesity, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), and depression. Some startling facts: By the 1990s the radius around the home where children were allowed to roam on their own had shrunk to a ninth of what it had been in 1970. Today, aerage eight-year-olds are better able to identify cartoon characters than native species, such as beetles and oak trees, in their own community. The rate at which doctors prescribe antidepressants to children has doubled in the last five years, and recent studies show that too much computer use spells trouble for the developing mind. Nature-deficit disorder is not a medical condition; it is a description of the human costs of alienation from nature. This alienation damages children and shapes adults, families, and communities. There are solutions, though, and they're right in our own backyards. Last child in the Woods is the first book to bring together cutting-edge research showing that direct exposure to nature is essential for healthy childhood development—physical, emotional, and spiritual. What's more, nature is a potent therapy for depression, obesity, and ADD. Environment-based education dramatically improves standarized test scores and grade point averages and develops skills in problem solving, critical thinking, and decision making. Even creativity is stimulated by childhood experiences in nature. Yet sending kids outside to play is increasingly difficult. Computers, television, and video games compete for their time, of course, but it's also our fears of traffic, strangers, even virus-carrying mosquitos—fears the media exploit—that keep children indoors. Meanwhile, schools assign more and more homework, and there is less and less access to natural areas. Parents have the power to ensure that their daughter or son will not be the "last child in the woods," and this book is the first step toward that nature-child reunion.