Last Child in the Woods

Last Child in the Woods, Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv is an inspirational book. Richard Louv mainly talks close to children not regainting enough vulnerability to nature and all the problems that atomic number 18 caused from it such as naturalize (academically), behavior, health, activated feelings, anxiety and depression. He explains that children from the age of six to eleven rates of obesity has increased and two discover of ten American children be orotund because instead of departure out of doors and head for the hillsing they are seance in the house watching TV or on the computer.In 1983 Howard Gardner came up with septenary intelligences, and recently he added a new one naturalist intelligence. When this describes a person it means they are able to recognize hypothecatets, animals and some(prenominal) an early(a)(prenominal) different separate of nature which e reallyone should be able to do. Not only are the characteriz ations of this additional intelligence righteous universe able to recognize parts of nature, but the person has to get to a love for, an interest for and worry about nature and all its parts. Physical Education in conditions is not how it was when I was in school.Children only get about 30 transactions and that usually contains them doing an organized sport they may not be interest in or and running from one fence to another. When Louv talks about children be outside in nature, which does not mean on the black go through, he refers to a green area. Schools are also beginning to cut out recess, which all children need. Research says nature can be used as a theory for children with ADHD and can some prison terms take the bewilder of their medication, Ritalin.The to a greater extent green children with ADHD and ADD are around the best they are all together, especially in school. They are able to nidus and concentrate more, have a higher attention span, they are more creative , get along better with others, are able to deal with consort pressure, and bequeath have a better behavior. There are many teenagers who have never been outside of their urban city and have never been in a green area for a long menses of time. Once they have that experience that will change their whole livelihood and there way of thinking.They will know and insure how beautiful and key nature is to them and others. Computers are beginning to take over schools and because of that music classes are creation dropped and art classes are becoming less and less hands-on and have less to do with nature. What school districts and some educators fail to understand is nature helps with childrens cognitive checkering. Many children are associating outside with worry. They are timid to go outside and wander by themselves.Sometimes part of that fear comes from their parents trying to protect them and telling them about strangers, and about muckle getting hurt little do they know that instead of helping parents are putting fear in their children. If a child is bored, one affair they can do is go outside. Children do not like going outside or existence around nature often, but if you get wind children to nature while they are still babies they will learn to vex interest for it and the child will rarely complain about being bored. Nature builds self confidence, which a lot of young children lack, it also adverts them stronger.Nature is no where in the schools curriculum, but it is alpha for educators to add it in as many ways as they possibly can. The problem is some educators fail to accredit how important nature is to children. When I begin teaching I plan to have some of my class outside in the green, sitting on the grass and or underneath a tree. When the whether admits we will have our reading and meditation time outside for sure. Our meditation time will be time for the children to get everything out of there system that is stressing them in any way.I will try my best to implement nature into my as many of my lessons as I can. The schoolroom will be just of plants and a suspender of small classroom pets, and it will be the school-age childs responsibility to take care of them. That will help them to learn to love, respect, appreciate, care for and how to take care of nature. Even just having plants and animals inside the classroom will help the children with their everyday lives and during the day especially when the whether does not permit us to go outside and enjoy what nature has to offer.Children in environmental based programs tend to do better thus those students in traditionalistic programs. Taking the students on field head trips that have to do with the lesson tends to be very effective. The children seem to take in more and enjoy it better then just sitting in a classroom. From the age of learning to passing endure and being able to play outside without my mom to elementary school my childhood was very similar to the baby-boomers in this book.I use to climb trees, make mud pies with my best friend, go in the woods just to play hide-and-seek, play in the rain fully clothed, etc. I look upon when I was in middle school I would rush to get done with my homework so I could go outside and play with my friends in my neighborhood. We did not play in green areas as often as we played on paved roads, but just being outside felt wonderful. When I was not allowed to go outside with my friends on weekdays and weekends, I remember I would cry because I loved being outside that much.We would ride our bikes and scooters or skate downtown to the boardwalk, play basketball, kickball and other kind of sports in the church, that most of us attended, parking lot that was come near to our houses. It wasnt until I was in the eighth grade when going outside was no long interesting to me. I was more interested in playing computer games, games on my play station, watching TV or just talking on the phone to my friends. Similar to the book, around that time my mom was scared to let me go too far from the house, because she was afraid something might go by to me.I had to be in front of the house by the time the street lights came on. Just like what was happening to a couple of the children in the book, I think my mom trying to protect me by telling me dont go too far, because something might happen scared me more than anything else and that might be what made me enjoy being inside more. I remember when I was in about ordinal or seventh grade, my family and I went on a skiing trip in northern Virginia. My step-dad, mom and I drove from South Carolina to Sterling, Virginia to take over my aunt, her husband and their two children. The next morning at about cinque oclock A.M. we began loading the bus for the ride to the ski resort. I know on the ride to the resort the scenery was beautiful, but just like any other child would do I slept, listened to my CDs, and played with my cousin, inste ad of paying attention to nature as we rode by the mountains and more. Once we finally arrived after what seemed like a long baffle I started to feel myself getting excited, because unlike my aunt and her family I never went skiing. The next day we went to the slopes and I had the best time I think I ever had still to this day. I really got a recover to see how beautiful nature really is.I took ski lessons and would ski on the small slope over and over again until I was promiscuous enough to accomplish the true slope. In order to get to the top of the slope you had to get on this ride that took you all the way to the top, which allowed people to see everything. That was a very beautiful site we looked down on the whole ski resort and the area around it, with the snow on the trees and Greenland. I deliberate this trip and my trips to Hawaii and Barbados are what made me ruin in love with nature. After seeing the beautiful scenery and the surface blue water in the islands,I bega n to love, cherish, care for, and become interested in nature more than I was prior to the vacations. This book is very important to science education, because science is the simplest subject to incorporate nature into. Educators can intimately add the students being in contact with nature to any lesson on their curriculum pattern for their grade level. When most students reach high school science becomes boring and the subject they despise the most and I believe a phenomenal way to keep them involved and interested in science is by implementing nature in the lessons