The times I spent with my children in nature are among my most meaningful memories-and I hope theirs.

Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication.

A natural environment is far more complex than any playing field.

What would our lives be like if our days and nights were as immersed in nature as they are in technology?

We cannot protect something we do not love, we cannot love what we do not know, and we cannot know what we do not see. Or hear. Or sense.

Another British study discovered that average eight-year-olds were better able to identify characters from the Japanese card trading game Pokemon than native species in the community where they lived: Pikachu, Metapod, and Wigglytuff were names more familiar to them than otter, beetle, and oak tree.

Kids and adults pay a price for too much tech, and it's not wholesale.