Mother Nature's Homie...
I think everyone, except me, suffers from NDD. What are you doing reading this blog!? You should be outside fishing or picking blueberries...
In the not-so-distant past, kids ruled the country's woods and valleys -- running in packs, building secret forts and tree houses, hunting frogs and fish, playing hide-and-seek behind tall grasses. But in the last 30 years, says journalist Richard Louv, children of the digital age have become increasingly alienated from the natural world, with disastrous implications, not only for their physical fitness, but also for their long-term mental and spiritual heath.
What is nature-deficit disorder?
It's the cumulative effect of withdrawing nature from children's experiences, but not just individual children. Families too can show the symptoms -- increased feelings of stress, trouble paying attention, feelings of not being rooted in the world. So can communities, so can whole cities. Really, what I'm talking about is a disorder of society -- and children are victimized by it.
So turn off your cell phone and check out Louv's book and then.... whoops..gotta go ..my cell's ringing....