Thursday, January 15, 2015



Continuing the countdown of nature mentoring tips leading up to the publication of "How to Raise a Wild Child," here's this week's offering.

Nature Mentoring tip #8
NATURE CONNECTION IS A CONTACT SPORT

Too often these days, children’s encounters with nature are dominated by a look-but-don’t-touch directive. Fearing that we must protect nature and our kids at all cost, we often do far more harm than good. Nature connection depends on firsthand, multisensory encounters. It’s a messy, dirty business—picking leaves and flowers, turning over rocks, holding wriggling worms, splashing in ponds. Lacking such experiences, children’s growth is impoverished and they’re unlikely to care for, let alone protect, natural places. So loosen up and find some hands-on nature experiences for the kids in your life. Rather than telling kids “no” all the time when they want to climb a tree, throw a rock, or step into a muddy pond, take a deep breath and offer words of encouragement. Don’t worry so much about the dirt and scrapes. Clothes and bodies can be washed, cuts heal.

Most of the time, kids don’t need to be shown how to connect with nature. It’s engrained in their DNA. Rather than seeing nature connection as something you need to teach young children, the real key is simply to take them outside and let them do what comes naturally! At least on occasion, seek out some wilder places where kids can go off-trail and bushwhack a little. Nature connection is a contact sport, and nature can take it! 

Don't forget to preorder your copy of "How to Raise a Wild Child," due out March 24th!

(Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)

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    The purpose of this letter is to introduce myself, as I am so to speak, your french spokesperson. Indeed, I have been invited by Catherine Meyer, who is in charge of your book’s publication in french, “ How to raise a wild child”, for an evening social event I had the pleasure to lead last June at the office of the publishing house Les Arènes.

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