Studies of children in playgrounds with both green areas and manufactured play areas found that children engaged in more creative forms of play in the green areas.
Richard LouvThereโs no denying the benefits of the Internet. But electronic immersion, without a force to balance it, creates the hole in the boat โ draining our ability to pay attention, to think clearly, to be productive and creative.
Richard LouvAmerican family life has never been particularly idyllic. In the nineteenth century, nearly a quarter of all children experienced the death of one of their parents.... Not until the sixties did the chief cause of separation of parents shift from death to divorce.
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