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An Evening With Richard Louv
"Western society is sending an unintended message to children: nature is the past, electronics are the future and the bogeyman lives in the woods. Ironically, at the very moment when more children are being unplugged from nature, when school districts are eliminating recess and cutting environmental education budgets, science is demonstrating the enormously positive impact of direct nature experiences on children's health and cognitive development."
--Richard Louv
Please join us for this special evening with a best selling author, and learn ways that you can reconnect your children, and grandchildren, with the natural world around them.
Louv's ground-breaking book Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder, has inspired a national movement of parents and educators determined to put their children in closer touch with nature. In this ground-breaking book, Louv exposes one of the most pressing issues facing the next generation: children are spending less and less time interacting with nature. The results have dire consequences: attention-deficit disorder, stress, depression, childhood obesity and anxiety disorders.
Before and after Mr. Louv's program, meet exhibitors from a wide range of outdoor, nature center and after-school programs that are read to help connect your kids with nature, neighborhoods and family.
Presented by North Cascades Institute and REI with support from The Sierra Club, The Forest Service, OneFamily Foundation. Media support from Parent Map and AM 1090.
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LocationTown Hall
1119 8th Ave
Seattle, WA
United States
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