Sylvie's blog

Richard Louv on biophilia

Q. Are we hard wired to be outside?

 

 

Generation M2

Genaration M2 folks...  wow...

 

Digital nation - life on the virtual frontier

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

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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

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

Why?

The danger of a single story

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

What is 'green exercise'?

 

A whole new mind

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

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

 

Creating memories

playing in fall leaves

Think back to your childhood memories...  Where do you go in your mind to your "safe spot'?

When I ask people to do this exercise, most of the time, their most precious memories come from a place where they were feeling connected to something greater than themselves, and they were of course: outdoors.

Today's generation of children has so much going on.  There is little time for exploration, for their sense of connectedness to happen.  What will our children remember when they are aldults? Those great hours spent playing WII?