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Developing Healthy Kids Through Outdoor Play: Be Out There Parent Tips

Parents are the custodians of their kid’s health. Along with grandparents, aunts and uncles, neighbors and family friends, they strongly influence habits and are instrumental in creating and maintaining behaviors that lead to wellness.

Caregivers can do the following to encourage outdoor time:

Take the pledge to Be Out There and get the kids in their life outside.
Be a role model for kids: show them how to un-plug from media and plug into nature.
Where safe, encourage kids to walk or bike to school.
Download simple and fun Be Out There outdoor activities. Don’t forget that gardening can be a fun way to get kids outside while they experience the thrill of helping things grow.
Enlist friends and neighbors to create outdoor playgroups.
Join kids for outdoor fun in the backyard, garden, park or nature trail.
Check out the Be Out There health questions to share with their pediatrician and school health professional