I was so determined to hit Jimmy Miller in the shins with my toboggan that I didn't notice the pond. Maybe I'd better explain. Winter is upon us. When the snow falls, there's only one place a kid ...

I was so determined to hit Jimmy Miller in the shins with my toboggan that I didn’t notice the pond. Maybe I’d better explain. Winter is upon us. When the snow falls, there’s only one place a kid ...

Richard Louv first coined the term Nature Deficit Disorder — “an atrophied awareness, a diminished ability to find meaning in the life that surrounds us” — in his 2005 book Last Child In the Woods, ...

In lives filled with cartoon characters wearing square pants, video games and shrinking backyards, many American children are suffering from “nature deficit disorder,” a condition associated with kids ...

A few days ago, I sat on the ground with a 6-year-old under a pine tree. We weren’t on a formal field trip or working from a lesson plan. We were simply curious. As we looked at the puzzle of bark ...

I went to see a Broadway play earlier this week and met a wonderful retired school principal from Florida, Bonnie. She was the one called in to fix schools that were failing. She mentioned a term to ...

I was so determined to hit Jimmy Miller in the shins with my toboggan that I didn’t notice the pond. Maybe I’d better explain. Winter is upon us. When the snow falls, there’s only one place a kid ...