Garden Views: Children and Nature-Deficit Disorder

Garden Views: Children and Nature-Deficit Disorder

Is Your Child Suffering from Nature-Deficit Disorder?  According to Richard Louv, in his groundbreaking national bestseller, Last Child in the Woods, we are rearing a generation of children indoors, with no direct contact with nature. Not only do our children miss the joy and wonder of discovery, but many now see the “outside” as a place of danger. Those of us in the baby boomer generation recall with fondness the special childhood freedom we en…