How can parents balance technology's role in their kids’ lives with the simple pleasures and lasting benefits of outdoor play? With this report, understand how kids’ media habits can impact their health, learning, and social development, and discover tools for combining the best of both worlds—virtual and natural.
When it comes to the whole child, nature may indeed be the best kind of nurture.
Getting down and dirty in the great outdoors—far from being a bad thing—helps children lead healthier, happier lives.
More time in natural settings can help a child get fresh air, be healthier, feel better, and even get a higher quality of sleep.
Barring truly threatening conditions, children are safe to play outside in most kinds of weather.
Spending regular time outdoors helps children grow lean and strong, enhances imaginations and attention spans, decreases aggression, boosts classroom performance, and makes kids better future caretakers of the environment.
Outdoor education and play time help students become high-performance learners with skill sets that will be with them throughout their lives, and help students perform measurably better on standardized tests.
School administrations and educators have a critical role to play in reversing the negative impacts of the increasingly indoor childhood and helping children to experience, understand, and appreciate nature and the outdoors.
Children should have access to and time for play in nature. A right for unstructured play. A right to create and explore. A right to experience the sense of wonder of being outside.
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