April is Children and Nature Awarness Month

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Children & Nature Network proclaimed April 2010 to be the third "Children and Nature Awarness Month". We all know that children need nature to grow strong and healthy. We also know that camping is the ideal way of bringing children and whole families back to nature.

For more information you can go to www.childrenandnature.org.

To read more about childhood "nature deficit disorder" I highly recommend reading Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv.