Nature-Deficit Disorder – How Can You Connect Your Kids to the Great Outdoors
In today’s 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. 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 rai...