Give Ample Outdoor Time
The digital age is affecting kids younger and younger as the times progress, leaving children lacking fun in the sun.
There is an endless list of positive benefits by incorporating outdoor play into a daily habit.
Meryl Davids Landau, author of Enlightened Parenting, has this to say about the pros and cons of getting children to run and play outside:
“Movement through active free play, especially outside, improves everything from creativity to academic success to emotional stability. Kids who don’t get to do this can have so many issues, from problems with emotional regulation—for example, they cry at the drop of a hat—to trouble holding a pencil, to touching other kids using too much force.”
Kids naturally want to play outside, all you have to do is nurture the need to explore and run.