Wild Play: Parenting Adventures in the Great Outdoors - Softcover

David Sobel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0996267697 ISBN 13: 9780996267694

Publisher: Green Writers Press, 2016

Synopsis

A trailblazing environmental educator raised his children in the heart of nature. His story shows other parents how they can counter today's pervasive â nature deficit. Updated wtih new essays. When David Sobel's children,Tara and Eli, were toddlers, he set out to integrate a wide range of nature experiences into their family life, play, and story telling. Blending his passion as a parent with his professional expertise, he created adventures tailored to their developmental stages: cultivating empathy with animals in early childhood, exploring the woods in middle childhood, and devising rites of passage in adolescence. Wild Play is Sobel's vivid and moving memoir of their journey and an in spiring guide for all parents who seek to help their children bond with the natural world. Through this family's experiences, we observe how free play in nature hones a sense of wonder, provides healthy challenges, and nurtures earth stewardship. Parents need to support kids access to independent outdoor play, says Sobel. Of course they should use judgment, but the benefits outweigh the risks. Richard Louv's Last Child in the Woods identified the urgent problem of nature deficit in today's children, sounding the alarm for parents, educators, and policy-makers. Wild Play is a hopeful response, offering families myriad ways to blaze their own trails.

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Review:

"The power of nature in children's lives is inextricably linked to the power of story, and David Sobel, one of the pioneering voices in the children and nature movement, is a born storyteller. Wild Play is an invaluable, eloquent, and heartfelt contribution to the movement, and most of all to children and those who love them."
--Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods Saving Our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder

- - Richard Louv

About the Author:

David T. Sobel, M. Ed., is a Senior Faculty in the Education Department and Director of the Center for Place-based Education at Antioch University New England. Prior to 1997, he served as the Chairperson of the department for a dozen years. He was one of the founders of The Harrisville Children's Center and has served on the boards of public and private schools. He was m member of the editorial board of the journal Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice and has served as a correspondent for Orion Magazine. His articles examine the relationship between child development, authentic curriculum and environmental education. He was the winner of a 1991 Education Press Award. In 2007, he was identified as one of the Daring Dozen educators in the United States by Edutopia magazine. His book Nature Preschools and forest Kindergartens will be published by Redleaf Press in autumn, 2015. David's exploration and documentation of the natural interests of chil

About this edition

• Publisher: Green Writers Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0996267697
• ISBN 13: 9780996267694
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256