And my mother basically took a deep breath and let me walk out. And I stepped into the pond, grabbed a handful of these things and stepped out further and flooded one boot and then another boot. And it took a moment to realize that all of these gajillions of little squirming blobs were animals. And I looked in the water, couldn't see anything. And I was so excited to see these tadpoles. And my mother took us there that day because she had heard that there were tadpoles in the pond. SAMPSON: One of them that I have told my daughter that she loves is me being about four or five years old and my mother taking me to this pond. Is there a story you relay to your kids, a moment that you connected with nature in a profound way?
MARTIN: You also talk about the importance of storytelling as kind of a strategy in developing your kid's affinity for nature. But just start to engage with it, become aware of it and at that point, you are actually doing nature connection for your kids. Get kids taking pictures of it if they need to use technology. And so the initial challenge is just to start noticing nature. We can walk outside and not hear the birds or smell the flowers or feel the air. One of the problems today is that kids don't have their sensory skills developed.
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Almost any patch of dirt will do, right? How do you make the most of limited space or nature? And what I liked about this book that you make it clear, you don't have to necessarily live near the Olympic Rain Forest or Muir Woods or some kind of other amazing natural setting. MARTIN: So this book is an effort to do that. And I wanted to try and use my skills as a science communicator to work on that problem. We have about a generation to sort of turn things around, both for us and the natural world. SAMPSON: Well, for me, personally, I just felt like I couldn't spend the rest of my life studying dinosaurs only and graduating students who were going to be doing this - that for me, I needed to work on the present day and the future. This career started for you when you made kind of a leap of faith - right? - leaving academia, going into the world of science education. Clearly it is a question you have been asked before. MARTIN: Amazing, and I love that that answer was just right on the tip of your tongue. Now, without question, it is Kosmoceratops, a horned dinosaur I had the pleasure of naming - Triceratops, three horns on its head, Kosmoceratops, 15 horns, blows it away. SAMPSON: When I was a kid, it was Stegosaurus, the one with all the plates and spikes. MARTIN: I'm going to put you on the spot. It's called "How To Raise a Wild Child: The Art And Science Of Falling In Love With Nature." Scott Sampson joins us now. MARTIN: Scott Sampson has made a career helping kids and parents connect with nature. UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (Singing) We're going to ride the dinosaur train. (SOUNDBITE OF "DINOSAUR TRAIN" THEME SONG)
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MARTIN: Sampson is the host and science advisor for the PBS Kids TV show "Dinosaur Train" which is all about trying to get kids interested in the natural world around them. But to a whole lot of American kids, he's this guy.ĭR. He's the vice president of research and collections at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.
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