While reading this Richard Louv book, I quickly discovered that Louv is one with nature and that he feels children need more nature in their lives. Actually, that their whole life be revolved around an outdoor life in some way or another.

I like my iPod.

I'm fascinated by my Nintendo DS.

I love my new Reebok smart shoes that have a computer chip in it that does what only the gods can fully understand.

And though I love the electrical outlets so much, I admire Louv for coming up with countless solutions to getting these dardest kids out in the woods/water/world in general. I found myself interested (and sometimes agreeing) to many points. Nature as a stress reducer, getting those ADHD kids to parks to burn some energy, and what I would like most of all to see: green towns. Towns that use solar energy and have rooftops of gardens to, in the end, give a little bit more time to this doomed planet. But with the interest I found in his points, sadness was right next to it in the form of falling statistics, increased hours of TV consumption, more obese kids that aren't running the streets, less woods, and the saddest of all: the spilling of 250 million gallons of waste water that polluted West Virginia and Kentucky streams.

But the sadness was effective, his opinion won me in the end, although his writing was very longwinded and in places redundant. 247 Now if and when I have a child, I'll know the formula for raising a child whose life won't involve battery powered scissors, virtual fishing, or TV induced car rides but instead be a creative child living in a open ended environment where only the laws of Usa (or, since its looking better every day, the EU) can hold him/her back.