Let’s make the indoor childhood so ’00s. NWF wants Americans to open the next decade with a new type of ‘time out’: a New Year’s resolution to spend more of … Read more
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Can Nature Make People More Caring? New Studies Say It’s Possible
The benefits of nature have been widely documented—active time in the outdoors improves classroom performance, gets kids off the couch, and can help prevent children from being “coronary time bombs”, and now new research shows that nature can also make people more caring.
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Seven Safe Ways For Kids To Have More Outdoor Play Time
Today's parents are concerned about the safety of their children when they are playing outdoors. There is more traffic on the streets and more worries about other harms befalling them such … Read more
Be Out There: Five Great Online Tools For Parents To Increase Their Kids’ Outdoor Time
Moms and dads who want to increase the amount of outdoor play time their kids are getting each week can find valuable help from the National Wildlife Federation’s Be Out There parents’ education program by using five terrific online tools.
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Be Out There: Seven Safe Ways For Kids To Have More Outdoor Play Time
Today's parents are concerned about the safety of their children when they are playing outdoors. There is more traffic on the streets and more worries about other harms befalling them such … Read more
Be Out There: The Ten Reasons Parents Should Care About Outdoor Time For Kids
The National Wildlife Federation’s new Be Out There Campaign aims to educate tens of million of U.S. moms and dads on the importance of helping their kids have more time outdoors and providing tools to do so. Read more
Interior Secetary: Kids Spending Just Four Minutes A Day Playing Outdoors
Can you imagine a world where people no longer care about wildlife or nature? Many of us may feel there is already too little concern for nature but that could get worse … Read more
October 4th: World Animal Day — Learn About/Join NWF’s Wildlife Watch!
It is World Animal Day–a day to show appreciation for animals of all kinds. World Animal Day was established on the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, a nature … Read more
When Words Become Endangered: Oxford Junior Dictionary Removes Nature Words
Noted Washington naturalist Robert Pyle once asked, “What is the extinction of a condor to a child who has never seen a wren?” In other words, if children can’t recognize … Read more
