Nature Builds Happier, Healthier Children

Time outdoors — even a walk around the neighborhood — helps children’s cognition, stress levels and general growth.

Nature can stimulate creativity, improve teamwork and teach all of us new ways to think and solve problems.

At CCBS, our beautiful wooded campus is a key part of the program as we “unplug” boys from technology and plug them into nature.

A growing body of research links time spent in nature directly to our mental, physical and spiritual health.

What are some of your favorite memories of being outdoors as a child?

Click HERE for a great article by Jamie Friedlander Serrano in The Washington Post that links more new research to illustrate “how time in nature builds happier, healthier and more social children.”

Having trouble accessing the article? Click HERE for a plain-text PDF.