Let’s Go Outside Revolution
The Let’s Go Outside Revolution is about growing a generation of Happy Healthy Children by changing the way children spend their time. It’s a movement for you, your family and your community. If you care about your children and their future and the planets future, take this revolution and make it your own.
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JOIN THE REVOLUTION – BE PART OF THE SOLUTION
Why I felt compelled to start up this organization: Like so many, I have been connecting children with nature for most of my adult life but it wasn’t until several months ago that it really hit me how catastrophic the disconnection between children and nature had become and the consequences it has brought about. My heart sank when I read that children spend 90% of their time INDOORS. As a mother and a naturalist this disturbed me deeply. I belief that we can change, the time is right, to reverse the time children spend indoors.
BEACH PARTY LAUNCH Video…
Dear Ms. Hughes:
“Congratulations. This is the kind of initiative that should be occurring across Canada. I support the Young Naturalists and Boy Scouts for the same reason. I tell the story that when I was growing up in the 1950’s, six of us lived in a house of less than 1000 sq. ft. and my parents were always telling me to go outside and play. Now we do the opposite”.
Go for it……David Suzuki
Watch the video:
EVENTS:
Vancouver Community College : Workshop session on 19th Nov 2011 “Connecting Children With Nature” with Marghanita Hughes 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m and 1:45 to 3:45 p.m. (Westcoast Child Care Resource Centre’s Annual Conference).
We will be traveling from 17th Nov 2011 – 22nd Mar 2012 providing nature classes, workshops and events for the “Let’s Go Outside” Revolution documentary. If you would like to hold a nature event, class or workshop, please email: info@marghanita.com.
If you would like to share your story how you are connecting children with nature or would like to help volunteer, please email me: info@letsgooutsiderevolution.com
By making small changes-magical things happen!
The Let’s Go Outside Revolution is a non-profit organization run by a group of enthusiastic parents, teachers and individuals who believe that the time has come… for change.
Our Goals:
- To produce a documentary and DVD series full of fun, educational activities inspiring children and their parents, teachers and their pupils to head outdoors to help you connect your children with nature.
- To provide an online and offline resource of information on how to actively engage children in the outdoors. A resource for parents, children and educators.
Our mission:
To actively engage children with nature and reverse the time they spend indoors.
- Children spend 90% of their time INDOORS.
- Childhood OBESITY is an EPIDEMIC
- Children aged 8-18yrs spend more than 7 hours a day in front of a screen.
- 1 in 3 children in Canada are either obese or overweight. ADHD and other stress-related illnesses are at an all time high.
THIS IS PREVENTABLE!
PLEASE HELP BY JOINING the “Let’s Go Outside” Revolution: www.letsgooutsiderevolution.com
We are currently building a network of educators, parents, politicians and organizations who have the same passion for getting kids outdoors. We believe if we inspire a love for nature in a child, it will lead to a desire to protect it.
- We are hoping to produce a documentary that will provide solutions to the problems we are facing in connecting children with nature. The DVD series to accompany the documentary will contain fun, educational activities and resources – the ABCs of actively engaging children with nature.
- We hope to inspire 30,000 Canadian children to participate in the “Let’s Go Outside” Revolution: we wish to inspire children and their parents and teachers and their students, to head outdoors and discover the magic of the natural world.
- The documentary will be filmed in the beautiful wilderness of British Columbia which is one of the most biologically diverse provinces in Canada. We will also be visiting schools, oragnizations and individuals throughout our journey from Vancouver down to San Diego where the “connecting children with nature” movement evolved, thanks to Richard Louv and his inspiring book “Last Child in the Woods”. The documentary and DVD series and accompanying worksheets will be distributed free of charge to every school throughout BC. Local children will then benefit from hands-on community-based projects.
I am a proud member of the children and nature network . This fabulous organization will be celebrating their “Let’s Go” campaign in April. Let’s G.O.! is a youth-inspired, youth-led Children & Nature Network initiative to rally people of all ages to Play, Serve and Celebrate. Our “Lets Go Outside” Revolution launch party is one of the events taking place for this wonderful campaign. (The Let’s Go Outside Revolution Beach Party is on 15th April).
Thank you for your support. THIS IS YOUR REVOLUTION!!! Working Together for a better future!
Here’s a link to my “Let’s Go Outside” video series.
Together, we can connect our children to nature and ensure that the next generation has the opportunity, the space, and the encouragement to “Go Outside and Explore Nature”
Let’s give children back their childhood.
We ALL have a part to play in this revolution. Watch the first episode:
Our first episode in the series features Dr Kristina Towill.
Dr. Kristina Towill is a Registered Psychologist and a member of the College of Psychologists of British Columbia. She began her career in the Lower Mainland, as a school teacher and school counsellor. She now has a large private therapy practice in Kelowna, BC, where she treats individuals and couples contending with a wide variety of life stressors. Dr. Towill regularly lectures to professional and community groups, on a breadth of psychological topics. Children’s development and welfare continues to be a passion for Dr. Towill, personally and professionally. She lives with her husband and young daughters in the Okanagan Valley.”
Coming up on the series: teachers talk about their commitment to outdoor play. Doctors discuss childhood obesity, depression and other illnesses. Children talk about what they want and we discover what they need. Join us on this revolution to give children their childhood back.
