GIVE CHILDREN REAL CHILDHOOD WITH OUTDOOR PLAY

Children today spend significantly less time outdoors compared to previous generations. Increased screen time, advent of social media and urbanisation all contribute to this.

The sun, mud, and made-up games in the backyard – the average child is missing out on all that today. They are living in a physically sterile and emotionally toxic virtual bubble instead, says an article in Screen Strong.

They are empty and depressed because their lives are void of nature and the most wonderful parts of being a child. Imagine growing up in today’s world without learning to climb trees, build forts. Imagine never feeling the soft but sometimes itchy grass on your bare feet.

Today’s kids are starving, empty, and missing out. What will they tell their children they did when they were children?

Give your kids a real childhood, get them out into the great outdoors.

Children still need a childhood with dirt, mud, puddles, trees, sticks and tadpoles. (Brook Hampton) We must teach our children to smell the earth, to taste the rain, to touch the wind, to see things grow, to hear the sun rise and night fall – to care. (John Cleal)