I think he makes a good point about soccer moms.
I've also read on here how kids will just compalin about not having technology like Playstations or XBoxs around...
But those people are missing the point..You don't just plop a kid down outside.You yourself have to take an interest in nature too to pass that onto your kids. You have to be excited and curious enough about it and try to look at nature and the world through THEIR eyes--NOT YOUR OWN.
That's what keeps you young at heart-that's what keeps those lines of comminication up with your kids-that's where they learn from YOUR example, that's where they learn respect for nature and the environment and become part of it as well..
This is something they can't learn from videos or classes.
That is the point he was trying to make.

Whoa! I just realized that this is supposed to be something of a "science" section for Huffington...? And this is how you begin by displaying the collective ignorance of the editiors? Wow...the point that the readership could use some enlightening on science has never been better made that this article, but it's hard to imagine the same stupid and lazy editors doing so much as stumbling over their own crippling ineptitude...but good luck on that.

This is an example of the media taking a rhetorical point and reinterpreting it in the literal sense in order to generate controversy and readership. Sadly, it is being used to defame one of the world's greatest advocates of education and protection of the environment to do little more than generate buzz for some pathetic and decidedly less capable writer. When this technique is used, whether by the left or right, it only brings down the level of discussion and makes us all stupid, which in a nutshell, is very much like what we see in our national debate on everything from climate to the presidency. It's disappointing to find it here in the Huffington Post. It does a disservice to the editors and their readership.

Go to the seashore and give them a bucket to play in the sand? Is he insane???? With all the needles, broken glass and urine from drunks on the beach, there is no way I'd let a small child dig in the sand unless it was at my own private beach.

Its about time liberal blogs like Huffington Post added a "Science" section. We all know that the right is science's biggest enemy, but if those of us on the left don't appreciate the value of science in our culture, then there is something seriously wrong with America.