Richard Louv Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

• Something else was different when we were young: our parents were outdoors. I’m not saying they were joining health clubs and things of that sort, but they were out of the house, out on the porch, talking to neighbors. As far as physical fitness goes, today’s kids are the sorriest generation in the history of the United States. Their parents may be out jogging, but the kids just aren’t outside.

  Richard Louv

  Kids, Talking, Parent

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.17, Atlantic Books Ltd

• Today's children are living a childhood of firsts. They are the first daycare generation; the first truly multicultural generation; the first generation to grow up in the electronic bubble, the environment defined by computers and new forms of television; the first post-sexual revolution generation; the first generation for which nature is more abstraction than reality; the first generation to grow up in new kinds of dispersed, deconcentrated cities, not quite urban, rural, or suburban.

  Richard Louv

  Change, Children, Growing Up

  Richard Louv (1990). “Childhood's Future”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• We do not raise our children alone.... Our children are also raised by every peer, institution, and family with which they come in contact. Yet parents today expect to be blamed for whatever results occur with their children, and they expect to do their parenting alone.

  Richard Louv

  Children, Parent, Peers

  Richard Louv (1990). “Childhood's Future”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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