MamAnomolie

There has been a lot of interest and research lately on the effects of children's changing play habits. Outdoor play used to be the norm, but today's generation is mostly an indoor bunch. Much of the research shows that, while well-meaning parents are just trying to keep their kids safe, there may be negative consequences to this lack of outdoor play. Of course, this is easy for me to say right now while my baby girl is safely inside me, but the fact of the matter is that children gain a lot both physically and mentally from unstructured outdoor play.

There is an interesting aticle from BBC News called "How Stranger Danger Changed the Way Children Play." It's actually a preview to a new BBC television series, but the article itself brings up some interesting issues as to why children are not allowed to play outdoors.

This is an issue near and dear to me, so I'm sure it will come up again in MamAnomolie.