No Child Left Inside Debuts in South Carolina

Daniel Island News – April 17, 2008
By Tom Ratzloff

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Does your child commune with Mr. Nintendo rather than Mother Nature? When he takes the garbage out, does that qualify as a wilderness excursion? If so, your little one may have NDD – nature deficit disorder, according to Richard Louv, author of "The Last Child in the Woods." "Nature-deficit disorder is not an official diagnosis but a way of viewing the problem, and describes the human costs of alienation from nature, among them: diminished use of the senses, attention difficulties, and higher rates of physical and emotional illnesses. The disorder can be detected in individuals, families, and communities," Louv wrote.…

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