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Warning to Parents: Do Your Kids Suffer from Nature-Deficit Disorder?

“They took all the trees, put them in a tree museum. Then they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see them. Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve lost ’til it’s gone? They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.” […]

Filed Under: Key 3- Adapting to Change, Key 4- Sharing Time Together, Uncategorized Tagged With: children, cognitive development, families, imagination, nature Leave a Comment

Don MacMannis, Ph.D.
Debra Manchester MacMannis, M.S.W.

Don and Debra are a team both at home and at the office. Married for thirty years and parents of two sons, they are psychotherapists who have simultaneously served as directors of the Family Therapy Institute of Santa Barbara. In addition to nationwide lectures on families, they have provided postgraduate training to hundreds of therapists. Read More >>

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