Valuing an Attitude of Attention

In her beautiful book, The Goodness of Rain, Ann Pelo urges us to help every child learn to value where she lives, no matter the circumstances:

"Rather than contribute to a sense of disconnection from place by writing off our most urban environments as unsalvageable or not worth knowing, we can instill in children an attitude of attention to what exists of the natural world in their neighborhoods...

Each child lives someplace. And that someplace begins to matter when children are invited to know where they are and to participate in the unfolding life of that place – coming to know the changes in the light and in the feel of the air, and participating in a community of people who speak of such things to each other."

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