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• 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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• The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that the number of overweight adult Americans increased over 60 percent between 1991 and 2000. According to CDC data, the U.S. population of overweight children between ages two and five increased by almost 36 percent from 1989 to 1999.

  Richard Louv

  Children, Data, Two

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.43, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• We can conserve energy and tread more lightly on the Earth while we expand our culture's capacity for joy.

  Richard Louv

  Nature, Joy, Energy

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.220, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I do not trust technology. I mean, I don't think we're in any danger of kids, you know, doing without video games in the future, but I am saying that their lives are largely out of balance.

  Richard Louv

  Mean, Kids, Technology

  "Saving Kids from 'Nature Deficit Disorder'". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 25, 2005.

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• If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war.

  Richard Louv

  War, Kids, Emotional

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• If we desire a kinder nation, seeing it through the eyes of children is an eminently sensible endeavor: A city that is pro-child,for example, is also a more humane place for adults.

  Richard Louv

  Children, Eye, Cities

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

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• Use all of your senses.

  Richard Louv

  Nature, Use, Senses

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.139, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication.

  Richard Louv

  Mother, Father, Communication

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• Rather than accepting the drifting separation of the generations, we might begin to define a more complex and interesting set of life stages and parenting passages, each emphasizing the connections to the generations ahead and behind. As I grow older, for example, I might first see my role as a parent in need of older, mentoring parents, and then become a mentoring parent myself. When I become a grandparent, I might expect to seek out older mentoring grandparents, and then later become a mentoring grandparent.

  Richard Louv

  Grandparent, Interesting, Example

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

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• American family life has never been particularly idyllic. In the nineteenth century, nearly a quarter of all children experienced the death of one of their parents.... Not until the sixties did the chief cause of separation of parents shift from death to divorce.

  Richard Louv

  Family, Children, Divorce

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

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