Help children develop a lifelong appreciation for nature!
Help us teach children to connect with nature and learn to love the world we live in – that way they will want to learn how to help it!
Children are spending more and more time indoors, and not reaping the benefits that young persons can from being outside! Like exploring new textures and sensory experiences – which helps improve motor skills and teaches them to be scientists – learning how the world works and finding happiness through doing it! Not to mention the mental and health benefits of fresh air and sunlight, in the form of. Vitamin D. What are you waiting for? Let them get outside and explore! It’s that easy!
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According to Early Head Start, National Resource Center:
“There is growing consensus among educators, health and mental health professionals, and other child advocates that this trend has significant adverse effects on young children’s health and development. For example, Richard Louv, a child advocacy expert, worries that children are disconnecting from the natural world, a condition he calls “nature-deficit disorder’. According to his research, nature-deficitdisordercontributestoa rise in obesity, depression, and attention disorders, and as young children“spend less and less of their lives in natural surroundings, their senses narrow, physiologically and psychologically….” Read the full article: https://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/hslc/tta-system/ehsnrc/docs/ehs-ta-paper-14-outdoor-play.pdf
Helping Ninjas at the Beach
