Hocking Hills: Building Family Bonds Through Forest Therapy

Gone are the days of children eagerly hopping on their bikes first thing in the morning and filling their days with endless outdoor adventures, exploring the neighborhood, local woods, or stream, cultivating creativity in imaginary play, or learning valuable lifelong lessons in communication, conflict, and cooperation in an impromptu ballgame with siblings and the neighborhood kids. Screens have quickly replaced bicycles as the most coveted form of technology in children’s lives. Screens that offer endless streaming options so children become an audience of one another and watch as others share their hands-on adventures and explorations.

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