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Rewilding Childhood: Why Our Children Need to Reconnect with Nature — and How We Can Help
Margot & Antoine Gels
In the heart of the modern Western world, something precious has quietly been lost.
Our children, once free spirits who ran barefoot through fields and forests, are now growing up surrounded by screens, noise, and concrete. Their eyes are filled with pixels instead of petals, their hands touch glass more often than soil, and their curiosity, once nourished by the living worlds, too often confined within four walls.
We are witnessing what many call Nature Deficit Disorder — but it goes deeper than that. This growing disconnection from the Earth is a spiritual and emotional wound, a fracture in our collective relationship with life itself.
When children lose their connection with Nature, they lose a part of themselves — their sense of wonder, empathy, intuition, and belonging.
At The Dream of Gaia Academy (academy.lerevedegaia.org), we believe that healing this disconnection is one of the most important missions of our time.
Because a child who knows the Earth as home will grow into an adult who protects her.
Reconnecting Children to the Living Earth
Our approach is gentle, holistic, and rooted in the rhythms of life itself.
Together with a specialized teacher who draws inspiration from Montessori and Waldorf education, we’ve created a series of Nature Activities for Children that bring back the magic of experiential learning, where play becomes wisdom, and imagination becomes connection.
Each activity is designed to awaken the senses, open the heart, and ground the child in the natural cycles of birth, growth, harvest, and rest. Through this journey, children rediscover what it means to live with the Earth, not apart from her.
Autumn & Winter: Seasons of Reflection and Renewal
When the days grow shorter and the Earth begins to rest, our activities invite children inward — to craft, tell stories, and explore the beauty of letting go. They learn that nature doesn’t die in winter; she transforms. And so do we.
Through cozy, creative projects, they connect to the stillness and mystery of the darker months — an essential balance to the outward energy of summer.
Spring & Summer: Seasons of Growth and Wonder
These activities celebrate the bright, creative energy of life bursting forth.
Children plant seeds, observe the tiny miracles of growth, make nature art, follow the bees, and learn from the patterns of sunlight and rain.
They learn patience, curiosity, and gratitude, lessons only a living garden can teach.
A Year-Round Journey with Gaia
For families, educators, and communities ready to walk the full circle, we offer the Four Seasons Bundle — all 20 activities (10 for spring/summer and 10 for autumn/winter).
It’s a year-long path of discovery, designed to nurture not only knowledge but presence, wonder, and connection.
These materials are beautifully suited for parents, educators, homeschoolers, schools, grandparents, nature mentors, therapists, and community groups — anyone called to guide children into a more conscious relationship with the living world.
They can be used in homeschooling settings or community circles. Each activity is an invitation to slow down, to listen, and to remember that we belong to this Earth.
Why It Matters
When a child plants a seed and watches it grow, something awakens inside them.
When they feel the rain on their skin or trace the lines of a leaf, they begin to understand the world not through theory, but through intimacy.
And from that intimacy grows compassion.
From compassion grows stewardship.
And from stewardship — a new Earth is born.
This reconnection is not just beautiful, it’s urgent.
Our world needs a generation of children who remember the language of the Earth, who know that every tree breathes with them, every bird sings to them, and every season has a story to tell.
Join the Movement!
We invite you to explore our offerings and begin this sacred journey with your children, students, or community.
Visit academy.lerevedegaia.org to discover the seasonal activities or the full All Seasons Bundle, (available in English, French and Dutch) and follow our living story on Instagram @lerevedegaia, where we share inspirations, nature practices, and glimpses of a world reawakening in harmony.
Because when children reconnect with Nature, they don’t just learn, they remember.
They remember who they are, and that they are part of something vast, ancient, and alive.
Let us rewild childhood.
Let us raise a generation that walks gently, curiously, and joyfully upon the Earth…
The children of Gaia.
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