An Indoor (or Backseat) Childhood Does Reduce Some Dangers To Children; But Other Risks Are Heightened, Including Risks To Physical And Psychological Health, Risk To Children's Concept And Perception Of Community, Risk To Self-confidence And The Ability To Discern True Danger

-Richard Louv

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An Indoor (or Backseat) Childhood Does Reduce

Richard Louv

An Indoor (or Backseat) Childhood Does Reduce Some Dangers To Children; But Other Risks Are Heightened, Including Risks To Physical And Psychological Health, Risk To Children's Concept And Perception Of Community, Risk To Self-confidence And The Ability To Discern True Danger

Topic

Nature

Children

Self Confidence

In Every Bio-region, One Of The Most Urgent Tasks Is To Rebuild The Community Of Naturalists - So Radically Depleted In Recent Years, As Young People Have Spent Less Time In Nature, And Higher Education Has Placed Less Value On Such Disciplines As Zoology……the Times Are Right For The Return Of The Amateur, Twenty-first-century, Citizen Naturalist. To Be A Citizen Naturalist Is To Take Personal Action, To Both Protect And Participate In Nature.

Years

Discipline

People