How Children Grow Today

How Children Grow Today

Nature as a Space for Development. A New Approach to Childhood Learning, Feeling, and Thinking

These two bestselling authors – the one a neuroscientist and the other a paediatrician – both agree: There is no stronger power for the healthy and happy development of our children than nature.

The Foundations of Childhood Development

Nature is one of the most important resources for helping children to grow up in a healthy and balanced way. Nature is wherever children experience freedom, meet with and learn to overcome resistance, and find themselves. Here, two renowned and successful authors develop an intuitive balance between indoors and outdoors, and between the real world and the virtual. This new edition features a chapter on the lessons of the Covid pandemic for childhood development.

• Updated and expanded new edition of Renz-Polster and Hüther’s bestselling book
• More than 45,000 copies sold
• The most comprehensive account of nature and its role in childhood development
• New chapter “Lessons from Covid”