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When Safety Concerns Override Nature Connection

I want my kids to love nature but I am anxious about ticks and dirt and injuries so I end up keeping them inside playing video games.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Fear masquerading as protection can rob the next generation of their birthright to wildness, creating the very disconnection we fear will harm them.

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