?Does Your Child Have Nature Deficit Disorder? Is your child suffering from not spending enough time in nature? Richard Louv, author of Last Child In The Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder, asserts that many modern children do. In fact, other medical and mental health experts and a growing body of researchers are also [...]

?So You Want to Raise a Natural Child? So you want to raise a natural child. Let’s say you are in the preconception or early pregnancy stage of parenting. What are some of the best ways to get started on the natural path from the beginning? It all starts with food It might sound obvious [...]

?Entertaining Kids Without Electronics It has taken some time, but finally there is widespread awareness that electronic games are contributing to the poor health of our kids. Studies are showing that kids in general are spending approximately 5 hours a day in front of the TV and/or game video screen. Sure some of these games [...]

?Gentle Discipline for the Older Child Part of disciplining a child is about setting boundaries and also about contributing to the healthy development of your child’s character and value system. As your child gets older and starts to assert his character, you may need to have some patience in order to adequately address disciplining situations. [...]

?7 Alternatives to Spanking and Harsh Discipline Practices Even the most well meaning parents may find themselves yelling or spanking their child in a moment of anger. This often happens because the parent feels out of control, or because the child’s misbehavior has gone on far too long. Gentle discipline doesn’t mean no discipline at [...]

?Questioning Conventional Parenting Wisdom A fundamental part of being a natural lifestyle in an unnatural world is to question conventional wisdom. Conventional wisdom isn’t necessarily wrong. We just need to shed the attitude that so many people can’t be wrong. The truth is that a lot of conventional wisdom isn’t so much believed by the [...]

?Two Steps Too a More Natural Family Life We live in a rather unnatural world, and every day we are exposed to persistent marketing that tries to convince us of more artificial items we’ve think we can’t live without. And yet we know natural is better, and wanting the best for our children, we want [...]

?Ideas for Preventing Nature Deficit Disorder? If your child gives you a glazed look when you suggest taking a walk in the yard or to the park to enjoy the outdoors he may have “nature deficit disorder.” Author Richard Louv coined this phrase in his 2005 book Last Child in the Woods. What Louv was [...]

?Creating a Children’s Garden Childhood is a time of wonder and joy. Our children appreciate the new ideas we share with them through books and conversation and the mysteries of life that we attempt to teach them in our home and natural environments. A garden is one of those mysteries of life that can be [...]

?Teaching Kids to Respect the Environment One of the best ways to get your kids to respect the environment is to show them the impact of their actions on the world around them. Our children have key role to play in protecting the future of our planet. As we teach our children about the world [...]