No Child Left Inside
November 22nd, 2008Have you heard about No Child Left Inside? Why am I always the last to know…
I’ve been told more than once that I’m not a “joiner,” but this is a movement that I think I could get behind. If for no other reason than I just attended the Minneapolis showing of the Banff Mountain Film Festival. I have to say, those skiers, mountain bikers, kayakers, rock climbers, etc… sure seemed a hell of a lot happier than most of the designers and programmers I hang out with. Think they know something we don’t? Perhaps it’s time to log-out of Twitter, power down the MacBook, and take the kids out for a walk. What do you think?
For my to-do list: Learn more about this Richard Louv guy and his book that appears to have started all this.
For your to-do list: click on that Banff link above and get all inspired.
November 24th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Thanks for your excellent, thought-inspiring blog.
To reclaim our family time, our connection to nature, and the rights of our kids (and us parents!) to free play and creating, we took a bold and dramatic approach–we moved from the U.S to Costa Rica! It’s the best decision we ever made for our family and for our kids.
Like Richard Louv, we’re passionate about reconnecting kids with nature, so we created Super Natural Adventures (www.supernaturaladventures). Our boys (ages 10, 11 and 13) present short videos on various nature topics here in Costa Rica and also invite kids around the world to get outside and send us a video, photo or essay about the nature that’s in their own area. Like the Banff movies you found inspiring, our goal is to inspire kids to get psyched about the wonders of the outdoors and to fall in love with nature from first-hand experience…because once they’re passionate about it, they’ll want to protect it. Have your girls send something to us and we’ll post it on our site!
We’re a grassroots, family-run concept and we’re just getting underway, so we’d also appreciate you passing along the Super Natural Adventures word to your friends and family and readers!
November 25th, 2008 at 7:28 am
Wow! Thanks for the comment and great site and inspiring story. I’d love to hear more about how/why you made the decision to move. I think for most of us, making such a move would require convictions and guts that are hard to fathom. (We made a simple move to to/from Maryland a couple years back and it almost killed us…)
Two more things:
First, just to make sure visitors can find your site (it was missing the ‘.com’ above) go to; http://www.supernaturaladventures.com
Second, we will definitely send you a video. Can we also come visit? It’s getting cold up here in Minnesota!