Go Outside and Play

re: Go Outside and Play

ccna — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:32:27 GMT

n a typical week, only 6 percent of children ages nine to thirteen play outside on their own. Studies by the National Sporting Goods Association and by American Sports Data, a research firm, show a dramatic decline in the past decade in such outdoor activities as swimming and fishing. Even bike riding is down 31 percent since 1995. In San Diego, according to a survey by the nonprofit Aquatic Adventures, 90 percent of inner-city kids do not know how to swim; 34 percent have never been to the beach.

re: Go Outside and Play

lulu — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:41:45 GMT

YO DUDE!

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rachel — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:01:15 GMT

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Ecomonkey — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:12:15 GMT

If kids don't spend time outside they won't learn about what the world IS - they think it is something outside of themselves. I work with kids as a preschool aide, who don't understand that water makes earth muddy, who don't understand gravity or that feeling that spinning the swing in a circle causes. They don't understand that they can break a stick by standing on one end and pulling up the other.

These kids will not only not understand nature, they won't understand that they are part of a physical universe. And many of them sit still so much and snack on junk so much they look like tiny middle-aged people by the time they are in the third or fourth grade.

We need to reconnect.