Sylvie's blog

Richard Louv on biophilia

Posted Wed, 03/25/2009 - 18:10 by Sylvie

Q. Are we hard wired to be outside?

 

 

Dirt is good

Posted Tue, 05/25/2010 - 07:49 by Sylvie

Watch this video and see if you can relate.  Kids, adults, I bet we all can.

 

Generation M2

Posted Wed, 02/17/2010 - 10:40 by Sylvie

Genaration M2 folks...  wow...

 

Digital nation - life on the virtual frontier

Posted Wed, 02/03/2010 - 07:14 by Sylvie

My husband and I watched this fantastic PBS Frontline ducumentary last night on the effects of growing up and living with all the technology available to us today.

http://tinyurl.com/ajqntn

David Suzuki on children and nature

Posted Sat, 01/09/2010 - 11:34 by Sylvie
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Couldn't have said it better myself......

Read here what David Suzuki has to say about getting children into nature.

How the world should work - A feel good story

Posted Tue, 12/08/2009 - 11:12 by Sylvie

Katharine and I think we are the luckiest people on the planet.

Why?

The danger of a single story

Posted Mon, 11/30/2009 - 06:57 by Sylvie

The danger of a single story... 

Chimamanda Adichie eloquently shows us how a story depicts one side of an event or topic. The stories we tell and read inform us and form us. Should we keep seeking the same stories to reinforce what we already think, or should we seek new, different stories to grow and learn? What would our children benefit from? Should we take them to the same playing spots all the time or try to show them new, natural worlds they can learn from?

 

 

 

Richard Louv on green exercise

Posted Sun, 09/20/2009 - 16:50 by Sylvie

What is 'green exercise'?

 

A whole new mind

Posted Wed, 05/20/2009 - 10:43 by Sylvie
A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink

Everything happens for a reason...

Usually, Katharine and I put aside a day to put our naturebags together, and we stand around the table and chat away while assembling the naturebags.  This is such a nice time we spend together.  However, today, Katharine is away and I find myself alone in this task.  So I set up my computer on the table and turned to Oprah's Soul Series to keep me company.

Dr. Cheryl Charles, president of the Children and Nature Network talks about the growing movement

Posted Wed, 04/22/2009 - 20:46 by Sylvie

Do you think the choir (of people who see the importance of children spending time outdoors) is growing?