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A Safe Haven for Children
March 8, 2017
Any problem can be made clearer with a picture.
-Dan Roam, The Back of the Napkin
-Dan Roam, The Back of the Napkin
"It's no doubt that our children are growing up in a fast-paced world. Technology is a great connector, but it can also demand that we be instantly available to each other, no matter what. And while it is wonderful to be able to turn on the television and ‘see’ each other all over the world in real time, this often means our children are bombarded with horrific images of war or natural disasters right in their own homes. Where is the 'safe haven' for our children these days?" ask authors Christine Kiewra, Tina Reeble and Nancy Rosenow in the book, Growing with Nature: Supporting Whole-Child Learning in Outdoor Classrooms.
"One answer is that nature-filled outdoor classrooms can provide that safe haven. There, away from televisions, video games, smart phones and computers for a brief time each day, the world can slow down and everyone can breathe easier.
Children can be children, adults can smile more, and discoveries can unfold slowly, with no expectation of 'finding the one right answer.'"
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Displaying 1 CommentDC Early Learning Collaborative
Washington DC, United States
Whenever I read about children and nature, I recall my childhood in the 1949s and those of my sons in the 1960s.
We all played on yards, fields and woods with no adult supervision, often teaching each other (there were always older kids around to ask. I learned what a trillium flower was! Recently, a step-daugter sent a photo of that three-focused beauty and zip wrote back that I hadn't seen a trillium in decades. She wrote, so that is what it is! Keep up the focus on nature and get folks out-of-doors. --Edna Ranck
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