All About Ojai: MOTHER NATURE’S CHILD Film and Panel Discussion
ALL ABOUT OJAI
Co-Hosted with Ventura Wild
FILM PRESENTATION AND PANEL DISCUSSION
Friday January 29, 2016
6PM
Matilija Auditorium
MOTHER NATURE’S CHILD
Growing Outdoors in the Media Age
Mother Nature’s Child explores nature’s powerful role in children’s health and development through the experience of toddlers, children in middle childhood and adolescents. The film marks a moment in time when a living generation can still recall childhoods of free play outdoors; this will not be true for most children growing up today. The effects of “nature deficit disorder” are now being noted across the country in epidemics of child obesity, attention disorders, and depression.
Mother Nature’s Child asks the questions: Why do children need unstructured time outside? What is the place of risk-taking in healthy child development? How is play a form of learning? Why are teachers resistant to taking students outside? How can city kids connect with nature? What does it mean to educate the ‘whole’ child?
The panel discussion after the film will attempt to address these questions and more. The panelists David White of Once Upon a Watershed and Heather King with Ventura Wild and others to be named later.
This All About Ojai event is co-hosted with Ventura Wild and is free to members, teachers and students and $10 for non-members. RSVP to Marti Reid at marti@ovlc.org or 805-649-6852 ext 2. Become a member today! A family membership is just $35 per year. Click here to join »
