Lost Child In The Wood Analysis

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In an excerpt for Lost Child in the Wood by Richard Louv, he tells us about the benefits children who are diagnose with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or ADHD and Attention Deficit Disorder or ADD could have just by being out in nature. He even suggests the can be miss diagnosed. Instead they can be surfing from something known as Nature – Deficit Disorder or NDD. In this particular part of the book that was read in class it explained how we as people have cut ourselves off from nature and though many people can coup with this, there are some who suffer from the lack of connect with the greenery and open spaces of nature. The book states “of the twenty-first century, nearly 40 percent of American elementary school either eliminated …show more content…

Coming from a more urban place going up I am use to concrete and tall building. The wilderness is something of a fantasy seen mostly in books. The tallest tree I’ve seen where I am from now seem small and insignificant, being here and being surrounded by nature some of which has been around for hundreds of years. In an article called ‘Walk on the Wilder side’ an English teacher experiences how detach from nature her students are firsthand. “Somewhere in the recent past her students had become the Net generation, weaned on electronic text, instant messages, and virtual reality. The gap between word and world had widened at the time when cotemporary environmental authors cry out for reconnection.” (Mary Ellen Dakin, 2011). A need to bridge the gap between kids that grow up in urban setting and nature itself has never been more important now. People are now spending so much time on their phones and computer not only can they get disconnected from nature, but they can also get disconnected from the world. When the English teacher in an urban area found that many of her student did not have a good understanding of the nature around them, she had them go outside and sit in a park and write about what they saw and heard. “She would see that they lack a vocabulary specific to the natural world, unable to name types of trees, birds, insect, grasses, flowers, and weeds they observed (one student would write

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