Showing posts with label The Outdoor Children's Charter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Outdoor Children's Charter. Show all posts

Thursday, 14 November 2013

Ontario Creates "Children’s Outdoor Bill of Rights"


Give a guess at how many hours children (in school today) spend outdoors playing, doing physical activity, etc?

Three. Including weekends.

The same children spent approximately 7 hours in front of screens.

Actually, sadly enough, children are spending more time indoors than at any other time in human history. Our children's connection to nature has been impaired and resulted in a "nature-deficit" and its a fact. Thankfully there is something we can do about it, and many people have already taken this problem into their own hands. These people are enthusiastic teachers and parents who take their kids outdoors to explore and learn from the nature all around us.