Powder Valley in St. Louis County Offers Event to Help Get Kids and Families Connected with Nature
Image by Tony Trần via Flickr It is becoming increasingly difficult to get kids connected with the outdoors. At our main site, Family-Outdoors , this is one of our primary objectives. The Missouri Department of Conservation at their Powder Valley site, is offering an event to help with this cause. The press release follows: Summer is the perfect time to get your child outside! Join us at Powder Valley on June 24 for a movie screening of Mother Nature’s Child: Growing Outdoors in the Media Age and a Get Your Child Outside special event on June 25. More information can be found at: http://mdc.mo.gov/sites/ default/files/resources/2011/ 04/child_outside_2.pdf The movie was produced and directed by Camilla Rockwell and was one of the movies selected for the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital. It examines the symptoms of “nature deficit” which include obesity, depression, and attention disorders. It explores the essential ways nature ...