The Importance of Outdoor Time For Kids

Parents today have a tough job helping their children be the best they can be. With so many outside influences effecting children today, a parent has more work to do keep their child away from bad influences. Much of this is because of the constant influx of influences that children are barraged with from social media, the internet, video games, movies, music, tv and their peers.

the Damaging Effects of Too Much Tech

In generations past, most parents simply had to strategically monitor their kids’ friends, music, movie and television time in order to keep them on track. However, things have changed more than a bit in the last two decades. The power of the influences of social media, video games and the internet on today’s youth cannot be understated.

In fact, in today’s digital age more and more children are caught up in spending time online, on tech communication devices or on computers than they spend time doing almost anything else other than sleeping. While the internet has provided many learning benefits for today’s youth, there are some significant downfalls to today’s current usage levels.

Overall children are spending very high amounts of time on their technology devices. One of the most damaging effects to this has been a lack of quality time outdoors. In recent a study published in the Guardian, children are spending  half as much time  outside as they used to just a few decades ago.

Recent studies have claimed that students spend between six and nine hours a day on some sort of tech device. If you look at this in an overall part of their everyday life, it often leaves little time to enjoy the many beautiful experiences that being outside offers.

Additionally, many of  the recent studies  have shown that children who spend too much time online or on their cell phones are often too detached from life.

Additionally, there are negative health impacts from not spending enough time outdoors in the fresh air and sunshine. Another significant negative impact comes from a lack of exercise which is another problem for kids who spend too much time on tech devices and lead more sedentary lives.

More Time Outside is Vital to Health

Because of these disturbing trends and the negative impact they have on kids, there is a strong push to make kids spend more time outside so they may learn how to enjoy and preserve nature for the future. In generations past, most kids spent many hours of their days outside especially during school breaks.

Until the age of the internet, kids were actively involved in many events outside with family and friends daily. The drop in outdoor recreation has had a negative impact in many areas beyond just causing problems for kids mental and physical health. There has been a drop in: child outdoor group events, tourism to nature parks and wildlife preserves and environmental awareness. Whether engaging in sports, outdoor or nature events, children need to grow up engaging in the natural world around them.

It is never a good thing for children to be removed from the natural habitats of the outside world. With billions of different insects, animals and plants to enjoy and examine, there is no shortage of the natural world for them to discover.

That is why there has been a rise in kids camp type of environments like Victor Harbor schoolies with Surething where kids can get involved in many wonderful outdoor experiences. Some of the best ways to teach kids about science, agriculture, plants and animals, eco-systems, environmentalism and building group and team efforts is through outdoor activities.

From waterways to mountains, forests and oceans, the world is a lovely world of ever flowing beauty. But for some kids, the majority of their exposure to nature is through pictures they see online. This can cause a significant detachment from the natural world and can have a very negative long-term effect on how connected children stay to nature as adults. By integrating the outdoors in a child’s life at school and home on a regular basis helps ensure the world becomes a better place for everyone. You can also go for resorts in Manali near river which are having the best view and feels really near to the mother nature.