Kids are plugged into some sort of electronic medium 44 hours per week.

There is a real world, beyond the glass, for children who look, for those whose parents encourage them to truly see.

Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the wonder you felt when first reading The Jungle Book or Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn? Kipling’s world within a world; Twain’s slow river, the feel of freedom and sand on the secret island, and in the depths of the cave?

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

The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.

To take nature and natural play away from children may be tantamount to withholding oxygen.

A lot of people think they need to give up nature to become adults but that's not true. However, you have to be careful how you describe and define 'nature.