Importance of Nature Immersion

🌞 Why are we so passionate about immersing children in nature???

Children are spending less and less time engaging with the outdoors, while the rates of emotional and physical disorders continue to rise

😳 According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the average school-age child gets roughly 15–30 minutes of recess per day, often broken into 15-minute increments. Although research suggests that children should engage in daily outdoor play for three to five hours, they spend at least that amount of time on their digital devices.

In addition to physical delays and disorders, there is an increase in aggressive and disruptive behavior, resulting in a staggering rate of children diagnosed with attention deficit disorder—inattentive and hyperactive types, oppositional defiant disorder, and conduct disorder (Fisher, 2019).

🍄Visser et al. (2014) found a 42% increase in children diagnosed with ADD between 2003 and 2011. Children are not provided ample opportunities to move their bodies in varied ways. Further, children’s natural inclination to fidget when their bodies need to move is being punished and pathologized.

✨ The Indie Sol was founded in an effort to shift the paradigm of education; focusing greater attention on the learning process rather than on the products that learners produce. By fostering the innate restlessness of children and harnessing an intuitive, child -led curriculum, we become less rigid and more versatile ourselves. Inherently, the children are more apt and able to lean into their needs and desires, while still having fun!

🙏🏼 If you are craving a more harmonious environment for your child, we’d love to hear from you! Kindly fill out one of our interest forms in our bio or shoot us an email at hello@theindiesol.org