Weekly Wellness Letter

[suzanne sanders]

I hope all of you are enjoying your summer.   We had my niece ( she is 15) from the Bay Area come  visit us recently, we took her on many outdoor adventures.  It was important to us to get away and have days with little or no technology during our visit.    We had hikes that were amazing, puddles that were fun to jump in and epic rainfall on us.  

 Last summer as I drove through the neighborhoods I realized something was off.  I did not figure it out until a few weeks later.  It dawned on me the there were no kids outside playing.   I noticed this all through the summer

Too many children are spending way to many hours inside.  The screen has become their life.   Way to many hours playing video games, face-booking and all the other things that suck them in.  It is addictive and un-healthy.  

How can we teach the generations of the world to care about our earth, the animals, the trees etc, if the future generations are out of touch with it all.   They are completely out of touch with nature.   Screen time calls to them like  drugs do to an addict. .  

 Video games, face-booking, movies, TV and all the other computer social networks burn your adrenal glands out.   The over-stimulation will exhaust the adrenals.  Therefore there would be  more anxiety, more depression,  more PMS, more ADD, more ADHD. 

For more on this subject:  http://richardlouv.com/

Book:  Last Child In The Woods, by Richard Louv 

Have a great holiday week. 

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