Last Child In The Woods Analysis
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2 December 2013
Last Child in the Woods Nature is full of beautiful sites that people enjoy seeing. If the outdoors is so amazing then why do children tend to stay inside instead of going outside? Today’s children enjoy playing video games more than going out running in the forest because it brings them more excitement. Some children don’t like getting their hands dirty, so they like video games more than the outdoors. There are many beautiful things to see outside rather than that plain old TV screen. By allowing your child to stay inside daily, it can and will have effects on the child’s outdoor experience. Children should go outside and play while they are still youthful, because they will not be a young age forever. In …show more content…
The passage we read is Louv’s seventh work of art. Louv was a columnist for the San Diego newspaper between 1984 and 2007. He has been a member of the editorial advisory board for Parents Magazine and a Ford Foundation Leadership for a Changing World award program adviser. He also was an adviser for the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child. He currently is honorary co-chair of The National Forum on Children and Nature. He has been awarded the Audubon Medal and he has also written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Times of London, and other major publications. Louv has appeared on many TV shows for all the hard work he has done with children and nature. He was also on TV for all the books he has written, but the most known book of his is the Last Child in the Woods. Louv was even on ABC’s Good Morning America once, discussing this book. Louv was the keynote speaker at the American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference. He has all the knowledge someone would need to know to be able to write about nature and children. By Louv being a part of Ford Motor Company he understood while children watch TV instead of looking outside their car window at nature. Louv says Ford makes cars with TV’s inside them to make the children feel more at home. Louv is a very accomplished writer, and knows what he writes about
2 December 2013
Last Child in the Woods Nature is full of beautiful sites that people enjoy seeing. If the outdoors is so amazing then why do children tend to stay inside instead of going outside? Today’s children enjoy playing video games more than going out running in the forest because it brings them more excitement. Some children don’t like getting their hands dirty, so they like video games more than the outdoors. There are many beautiful things to see outside rather than that plain old TV screen. By allowing your child to stay inside daily, it can and will have effects on the child’s outdoor experience. Children should go outside and play while they are still youthful, because they will not be a young age forever. In …show more content…
The passage we read is Louv’s seventh work of art. Louv was a columnist for the San Diego newspaper between 1984 and 2007. He has been a member of the editorial advisory board for Parents Magazine and a Ford Foundation Leadership for a Changing World award program adviser. He also was an adviser for the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child. He currently is honorary co-chair of The National Forum on Children and Nature. He has been awarded the Audubon Medal and he has also written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Times of London, and other major publications. Louv has appeared on many TV shows for all the hard work he has done with children and nature. He was also on TV for all the books he has written, but the most known book of his is the Last Child in the Woods. Louv was even on ABC’s Good Morning America once, discussing this book. Louv was the keynote speaker at the American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference. He has all the knowledge someone would need to know to be able to write about nature and children. By Louv being a part of Ford Motor Company he understood while children watch TV instead of looking outside their car window at nature. Louv says Ford makes cars with TV’s inside them to make the children feel more at home. Louv is a very accomplished writer, and knows what he writes about