Putting Nature Into Play

The features in this issue showcase great looking playgrounds and a wide variety of innovative play equipment and structures. Grown-ups today can only imagine what fun they would have had on such imaginative elements. However, many Baby Boomers can fondly recall youthful days and playing outdoors in nature, something the current generation of kids apparently does less of, given that Richard Louv has authored the best seller Last Child in the Woods, which asserts “the disconnection between children and nature.”

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