When I was a child, I roamed the woods and played outdoor games with my friends. Few children today seem to be so lucky.
Below are recent articles that point to the lack of outdoor experience among children and why that matters.
- “Kids These Days: Why Is America’s Youth Staying Indoors?” (Nature Conservancy website)
- “Only Half of Preschoolers Play Outside With Parents Daily, Study Finds” (Education Week)
- “Frequency of Parent-Supervised Outdoor Play of US Preschool-Aged Children” (Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine)
- “Increasingly, Children’s Books are ‘Where the Wild Things Aren’t'” (University of Nebraska – Lincoln)
- “Nature-Deficit Disorder” (New York Times)
- “The Great Outdoors Is Good for Allergies” (Wired Magazine)