Marti Erickson, Ph.D. is co-founder and Children & Nature Network. Founding Director of the University of Minnesota’s ground-breaking Children, Youth & Family Consortium, and now serving as Consultant and Director Emeritus, Marti Erickson is well-known for her research and writing on parent-child attachment, children’s mental health, and strategies for working with high-risk children and families.
Kids today spend much less time outside than previous generations did -- at great cost to their health, learning, and even the future of our environment.
There's a growing movement to reconnect kids and nature, and you can be part of it, starting right outside your own door!
Join psychologist and radio and TV personality Dr. Marti Erickson to learn why this is so important and what you can do to get your child and yourself on this fun-filled pathway to learning, health and strong family bonds.
Marti is passionate about the role of nature in children’s development and hopes to spur not only a movement to reunite children with the natural world, but also more rigorous, extensive research on this critical topic in human development.
Saving our children from nature-deficit disorder.
Hailed as "an absolute must-read" by the Boston Globe and "too tantalizing to ignore" by Audubon magazine, Last Child in the Woods is the inspiring work that proves children need nature as much as nature needs children.
The vision and mission of theChildren & Nature Network is to give every child in every community a wide range of opportunities to experience nature directly, reconnecting our children with nature's joys and lessons, its profound physical and mental bounty.
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