By: Mark Cullen (Jun 26 2015). While interviewing a young child on his obsession with being indoors, Richard Louv leaned in towards the young lad and asked, “What is it about being indoors that you find so appealing?” “Why, that’s where the electrical outlets are,” he said. That day, back in 2004, the author decided to write a book exploring the importance of nature in the lives of young people: Last Child in the Woods. Although, it has been 10 years since Louv first published his landmark book, kids continue to suffer from “nature deficit disorder” and sequester themselves indoors. We are at risk of developing permanently hunched backs from looking down at our electronic hand held devices.
