vo: today on eco sense for living we'll explore nature deficit disorder and how getting your kids back into nature can improve their health, and maybe even their attention span. jennie: this generation of children has less contact with nature than any generation in our history. less time picking blueberries, building tree forts and exploring creeks. richard: well when i first started looking into this, parents had a sense that this was happening, even kids had a sense. i think this was in the back of a lot of people's minds, but we had no real language to describe. i mean this is unprecedented, this, this disengagement between children and nature. so the phrase 'nature deficit disorder', which i initially meant as almost tongue in cheek, people know it. they know what that is and then if they hear it,