Blog

Rediscovering Nature Play

playground 2.jpg

HISTORICALLY, FREE spontaneous play was tempered with physical work and set in the fields, barnyards, streams, countryside, and vacant city lands. Today, children are abandoning outdoor explora­tion, free play, and learning in nature for sedentary cyber play, junk food, and the destructive effects of high stakes testing and over-protectionism. The dilemma thickens. During the first decade of the present century, more than a quarter of American children and more than half of those in developing countries have grown up in urban slums. Most may never experience more than fleeting contacts with the natural wonders of wild places and farms and accompanying heightened senses and creative products of meaning­ful work and transformative play. Many will find their traditional grounds for play taken by machines, concrete, and steel or closed by fences, traffic, and privacy claims. For more please open the PDF.

Original: http://texaschildreninnature.org/blog-notes/rediscovering-nature-play

Rediscovering Nature Play | Nature Rocks Rio Grande Valley

Error

The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later.