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Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication.

Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication.

Richard Louv
Mother, Father, Communication

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that the number of overweight adult Americans increased over 60 percent between 1991 and 2000. According to CDC data, the U.S. population of overweight children between ages two and five increased by almost 36 percent from 1989 to 1999.

Richard Louv
Children, Data, Two
Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.43, Atlantic Books Ltd

Use all of your senses.

Richard Louv
Nature, Use, Senses
Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.139, Atlantic Books Ltd

A lot of people think they need to give up nature to become adults but that's not true. However, you have to be careful how you describe and define 'nature.

Richard Louv
Giving Up, Thinking, People

I do not trust technology. I mean, I don't think we're in any danger of kids, you know, doing without video games in the future, but I am saying that their lives are largely out of balance.

Richard Louv
Mean, Kids, Technology
"Saving Kids from 'Nature Deficit Disorder'". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 25, 2005.

If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war.

Richard Louv
War, Kids, Emotional

In every bio-region, one of the most urgent tasks is to rebuild the community of naturalists - so radically depleted in recent years, as young people have spent less time in nature, and higher education has placed less value on such disciplines as zoology……The times are right for the return of the amateur, twenty-first-century, citizen naturalist. To be a citizen naturalist is to take personal action, to both protect and participate in nature.

Richard Louv
Years, Discipline, People

We do not raise our children alone.... Our children are also raised by every peer, institution, and family with which they come in contact. Yet parents today expect to be blamed for whatever results occur with their children, and they expect to do their parenting alone.

Richard Louv
Children, Parent, Peers
Richard Louv (1990). “Childhood's Future”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The real cultural war is between the culture of narcissism and what might be called the culture of renewal.

Richard Louv
Real, War, Simple
Richard Louv (1998). “Web of Life: Weaving the Values That Sustain Us”, p.123, Conari Press

If we desire a kinder nation, seeing it through the eyes of children is an eminently sensible endeavor: A city that is pro-child,for example, is also a more humane place for adults.

Richard Louv
Children, Eye, Cities
Richard Louv (1990). “Childhood's Future”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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