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Singing Creek habitat.
Lyt also knows how gadgets can get in the way of that direct experience. “No cameras in camp,” he told me, explaining that when a child holds a camera, it becomes the focus, rather than the living thing itself. “Instead, we emphasize the real connection between that living thing and its habitat.” Besides, kids have plenty of other opportunities to learn how to use cameras, along with computers and other electronics.
This is entirely consistent with Richard Louv’s ideas in the email he sent me. “Let’s hope for a revival of the idea of camps as places to connect to nature, not to computers,” he wrote.
Amazingly, the campers' favorite activity is what Lyt calls simply “quiet time.” At the start of camp, each child chooses his or her own special place in the woods, and then every day they spend 20 minutes just sitting in it. “They can write or draw if they want, but no books or talking. And we get no complaints, not a single one.” Even kids who have a hard time sitting still for five minutes in school or at home are able to appreciate 20 minutes of stillness to observe the birds and insects around them, or just be within their own world of thoughts.
Richard Louv would also understand this very well. In Last Child in the Woods, he documents studies which have shown how experience outside, in nature, can have amazing
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