- Children are spending half as much time outdoors as they did 20 years ago.
- Today, kids 8-18 years old devote an average of 7 hours and 38 minutes using entertainment media in a typical day (more than 53 hours a week).
- In a typical week, only 6% of children ages 9-13 play outside on their own.
- Children who play outside are more physically active, more creative in their play, less aggressive and show better concentration. (Burdette and Whitaker,
- Sixty minutes of daily unstructured free play is essential to children's physical and mental health.
- The most direct route to caring for the environment as an adult is participating in "wild nature activities" before the age of 11.
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