Getting Cheeky About Outdoor Play

7.5 = number of hours of screen time school aged children experience daily

32 = number of hours of television preschoolers watch weekly

19 = percentage of infants one year and under with televisions in their rooms

25,000 = average number of television commercials a preschooler sees

I’ve tried lots of approaches to talk about this issue. I thought I would try something different this time. And a bit cheeky.

As an advocate for healthy, happy childhoods I will do just about anything to get the message out — and to make people actually listen.

Unplug. Set screen time limits. Get your kids outdoors for unstructured play experiences.

Explore your green community spaces.

PLEASE.

This entry was written by Bethe, posted on March 13, 2012 at 8:10 AM, filed under parenting, Perspectives, play and tagged Childhood, children, family fun, happiness, health, kids, lifestyle, nature, outdoors, parenting, play, society. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback.