Connecting Children and Nature

08/16/2023

"There is a certain level of closing in that we inherently do when we are in closed in spaces all the time."

12/09/2020

Come experience the national parks! On six days in 2021, all National Park Service sites that charge an entrance fee will offer FREE admission to everyone. Where would you like go?

Mark your calendar for these entrance fee–free dates:

📌 January 18: Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.

📌 April 17: First day of National Park Week

📌 August 4: One year anniversary of the Great American Outdoors Act

📌 August 25: National Park Service Birthday

📌 September 25: National Public Lands Day

📌 November 11: Veterans Day

Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/fee-free-parks.htm

Image: View of Delicate Arch aglow at sunset at Arches National Park, Utah. Photo by Dvir Barkay (sharetheexperience.org)

03/19/2020

https://whyy.org/articles/public-health-experts-parks-are-a-safer-bet-in-the-age-of-coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR0NboZ_MEHIAnIg0B8VMQU20a3eL_GPLszO39CG8OYLPfCCRuAHn26CfsE

Big parks are great for social distancing and to reduce stress and anxiety produced by the coronavirus pandemic.

09/09/2019

Lots of science-backed facts on why spending time in nature is so beneficial to our health!

Science is showing how immersion in nature speeds healing and acts as an antidote for many ailments.

05/29/2019

03/04/2019

Great to see this article in the "Health" section of TIME.

Doctors are harnessing the power of parks

04/08/2018

For many of us, thinking about the future conjures up images of Cormac McCarthy's The Road: a post-apocalyptic dystopia stripped of nature. Richard Louv, author of the landmark bestseller Last Child in the Woods, urges us to change our vision of the future, suggesting that if we reconceive enviro...

04/22/2017

Join the seventh annual Kids to Parks Day on Saturday, May 20, 2017. Spend the day doing something Scouts love to do anyway: having fun in a park.

04/15/2017

Want to raise kids who protect nature? Send them outside to play!

Protecting the environment can be as easy as telling your kids to go outdoors and play, according to a new study.

10/06/2016

Play for grown people is recreation - the renewal of life; for children it is growth, the gaining of life. -Joseph Lee

04/28/2016

Truth

03/28/2016