Nature-Deficit Disorder – How Can You Connect Your Kids to the Great Outdoors

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Nature-Deficit Disorder How Can You Connect
Your Kids to the Great Outdoors
In todays world, most kids are alienated from
nature, when it needs to be an essential part of
growing up. Climbing trees, bee stings, crushing
ants, and catching butterflies have the potential
to make childhood days memorable for any kid.
Preschool teachers feel nowadays many children
are suffering from Nature-Deficit Disorder.
Nowadays as kids do not spend much time with
nature, they are growing up with a complete lack
of comprehension of the world around them.
Spending more time in nature helps children
develop stronger immune systems, healthier
emotional coping abilities, empathy, and a
scientific mindset.
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So, How Can You Connect Your Kids to the Great
Outdoors? Start from home - Allow the youngster
to interact with nature, whether or not you have
a garden at home. Planting a tree, shrub, or bush
and nurturing and raising it, even in a pot,
erecting a sparrow or owl home outside your
window, getting your hands filthy in the mud, or
making sure the rain splatters on the tomato
creeper, can all be the beginning of a passion
for nature. Modest and large critters will
materialize mysteriously once you have even a
small amount of flora around.
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The great outdoors - All you have to do is pique
the interest of children by taking them to
botanical gardens or protected woods near cities.
Wilderness has a certain allure. Unlike
television and video games, where you can only
hear and see, forests provide a sensory overload
you can feel, see, taste, smell, hear, and have a
great time. A child's viewpoint can be changed by
firsthand contact with the outdoors.
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Visiting zoos and zoological parks - To the
majority of us, nature depletion has been reduced
to global warming threats. Our educational system
has succeeded in painting an apocalyptic scenario
while failing to foster a connection with nature.
With forest cover dwindling, animals being
poached to extinction, and wildlife sanctuaries
being the interest (or privilege) of a few,
connecting with nature appears to be a distant
possibility. In Hacienda Heights CAZoos and
zoological parks are still the only venues where
people may connect with animals and be educated
about them. Zoos, in fact, are an unrivaled
educational resource for the general public. They
also reproduce many highly endangered species
that are threatened even in wildlife refuges.
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Nature education requires a visually appealing
location that can pique a child's interest while
also competing with the internet, television, and
Playstations. After viewing an animal up close,
no preschool-going child can remain indifferent.
Zoos are places where youngsters can view animals
they've only heard about in books. It's a joy to
witness a child's delight in a zoo. It provides
shape to their imagination and invites them into
a world of wonder. Many of them grow up to be
crusaders for wildlife conservation. Besides
these, you can even encourage your kids to read
different books on nature, take care of the
terrace garden or participate in tree plantation
movements.
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