About a year ago I posted a link to an article in Orion Magazine about getting children out into the great outdoors. Well I have just stumbled across a whole website devoted to the same topic, FreeRangeKids [^]. This site is written by another American, Lenore Skenazy, a New Yorker no less! A furore erupted when [...]
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Leave No Child Inside – Good Trend from America
It seems as though someone has finally stumbled upon a really good idea – get kids outside. Instead of having kids constantly under their parents feet, or being chauffeur-driven around to organised sports and shopping malls get them out into the great outdoors! And all this from America! Yes, there are risks outside [...]
Remember “go outside and play”?
There is another let children be children article in the LA Times, by Rosa Brooks: All in all, “going out to play” worked out well for kids. As the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg testified to Congress in 2006, “Play allows children to create and explore a world they can master, conquering their [...]