According to the National Wildlife Federation,
By the time they are seven years old, most youngsters have been exposed to
more than 20,000 advertisements. They can identify 200 corporate logos, but they
cannot identify the trees growing in their front yards.
Learn more here.
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Also a child witnesses thousands of deaths on television before he or she is 8 years old, or something like that. Slippery slope or the Progressive Science of breeding idiots for a dumber society.
Of course, I can not name many trees myself.
Logos suck. And you've heard about the whole Billboards in Space thing they were trying many years ago?
My parents have split up this pseudo duty - Dad is in charge of knowing the tree names, and Mom knows plant & flower names. I think Mom is also in charge of types of birds too. Jason and I know none of these things, but I'm getting better with the plants.
Y'know, I've never exactly been Nature Boy. Nature is fine when it's in the prettily landscaped and marble-statue-lined confines of Druid Hill Park but otherwise it usually just makes me sneeze.
I know some basics, though, as do most city kids who've grown up with tiny little backyard gardens and tidily-controlled city parks.
Or so I thought until I attempted to teach Wordsworth.
Not a SINGLE ONE OF MY NINTH GRADERS knew what a daffodil was. I'm not talking didn't know what it looked like, I'm talking never heard the word. And they think roses smell disgusting. AXE, on the other hand, turns them on.
OMG, Dan, squirting AXE and similar products into the stuffy classroom air was a fav middle school prank while I was subbing. Then some kid would pretend it bothered his asthma . . . . Durn I am glad to be rid of that job!
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