I went to see a Broadway play earlier this week and met a wonderful retired school principal from Florida, Bonnie. She was the one called in to fix schools that were failing. She mentioned a term to ...

I was so determined to hit Jimmy Miller in the shins with my toboggan that I didn’t notice the pond. Maybe I’d better explain. Winter is upon us. When the snow falls, there’s only one place a kid ...

pt. I. The new relationship between children and nature. Gifts of nature -- The third frontier -- The criminalization of natural play -- pt. II. Why the young (and the rest of us) need nature.

Tonight at 7 p.m. at REI 222 Yale Ave N., there will be a roundtable discussion on "Nature Deficit Disorder." It's not a clinical diagnosis; it's the buzzword culled by Richard Louv in his 2005 book, ...

Richard Louv first coined the term Nature Deficit Disorder — “an atrophied awareness, a diminished ability to find meaning in the life that surrounds us” — in his 2005 book Last Child In the Woods, ...

A few days ago, I sat on the ground with a 6-year-old under a pine tree. We weren’t on a formal field trip or working from a lesson plan. We were simply curious. As we looked at the puzzle of bark ...

I was so determined to hit Jimmy Miller in the shins with my toboggan that I didn’t notice the pond. Maybe I’d better explain. Winter is upon us. When the snow falls, there’s only one place a kid ...