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Endangered Species: the disappearance of Youth from the desert
In the past 20 years our children have become increasingly alienated from natural world. They have abandoned our open spaces and wilderness, where unstructured imaginative play has been around for as long as the human species. Youth expeditions that discovered shortcuts to the school and hidden secret places, are eradicated by fears of society and imminent litigation. Days spent building forts in the woods and swim in the pools are rapidly disappearing from our social history. At best radio constriction children are allowed to travel around their houses limited to patches of confidence grass and concrete in the front yard.
The effects of this lack of nature in the physical, emotional, and spiritual health of our youth are popular themes in the social laboratory. Sacramento State University offers a course of only examine the effects of television on our youth. It is considered a likely contributing childhood obesity, aggressive behavior and attention deficits.
It is a curious abandonment of a parenting philosophy that once produced some of the best lessons children. Kevin Smith remembers growing up in Camarillo, a small coastal town in California's farm. "As kids my brother and I, along with several neighborhood friends, spent hours playing in a large wheat field to the end of our street. We would dig holes and build "fortresses" with everything he had for which is in the house. Sometimes, our parents let us camp overnight. This whole twice a year disappear when the landowner plow in the field to plant wheat for their cattle. "
Morisawa Natasha, an analyst Bioterrorism and Emergency Preparedness, remembers walking with their dogs for hours with her sister. Toured local parks, district learning on the road. "Not only our street or block, but details about the blocks between our home and Park, more details would never know if you got in the car. "
The Nanny ELECTRONIC
What is to blame for the disconnect? The popularity increasingly high video games, television and computers are obvious targets. For the first time in history, early life experiences are more pixels LCD and cartoon characters than collections of insects and treehouses. A study by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that U.S. youth now spend an average of to five hours a day – 40 percent of their waking hours – in front of electronic devices. And the behavior starts young. Children under two years to invest more than two hours in front of screen media.
In 1997, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) focused their studies on potential health risks that television, movies, music videos and video games of our youth today. Since then, has been linked with a number of conditions. In general is accepted as a contributor to childhood obesity and inactivity, hypertension encouraging. Compounding the problem, the foods advertised during programming Children are high in fat, sugar and salt. Academically, there is a relationship between excessive TV watching and a decline in reading and comprehension skills. Emotionally, the media overexposure can contribute to aggressive behavior and desensitization to violence. When children become adults Young, conditions with body image, sexuality and self-concept may develop from the representation of realistic scenarios.
But researchers are not willing to say that digital media and entertainment are completely to blame. Only symptoms can be more challenging, something to fill the time lost due to the choices of a child.
Criminalizing GAME
In communities today, money has become a powerful source of payment. mental anguish, embarrassment and lack of respect everyone has a price. We have a complaint about ruined pants and let fly from a neighbor. Playtime is not exempt from this system. The fear of litigation of a child falling from a tree or tripping on the corner of a stream is too large. nervous owners dissolved any game in their backyards, fearful that a slip on the wet grass could lead to the loss of your home, your retirement, or the substance of his own son to college.
As Young people are increasingly closed undeveloped land, and the departments of Recreation Park to create fair fight outdoor experiences. A replica loss opportunities. Rise molded plastic climbing walls, cushioned cover, skate parks and water slides.
THE AGE OF INFORMATION
In 1980, Turner Broadcasting CNN launched the U.S. introduction of a new news format. A 24-hour news format endless loop. Not far away, Television cable channels multiplied our number from five to hundreds of people. Filling all channels, all those hours? Repeat. Hour after hour, from network to network. Repeat daily.
In 1989, the World Wide Web was born. The Internet provides a platform for accelerating information throughout the world. Once connected, the public no longer had to wait for the delivery of news via television and the press, which could hunt for it. One way to know almost nothing of what I wanted at any time, ad nauseam. Our hunter-gatherer nature awoke.
Parents embraced the new format, the collection of information that would keep themselves and their children safer, the ultimate responsibility of parents. But what ultimately find?
Twenty seconds Internet search shows the following results:
• An abduction that are not family members occurs every nine minutes in the U.S..
• There are 4 million dog attacks in the U.S. company, especially in children.
• As many as one in twenty adults have active thoughts pedophilia or trends. (World Children's Fund)
• About 1000 children die from drowning.
• Each year about 250,000 children are taken to the emergency room because of an injury on the bike.
Then comes the daily headlines and reinforce the threats. "The Oxnard man shot "The Death", is positive for the West "Nile Virus" Mountain lion spotted on the roof of California. "Television leads farther from home.
"A Chino Hills park is closed after a coyote attack on a child of two years …"
"The police are looking for a 14 year old girl who disappeared from her home in Bel Air early Tuesday … "With the information as it appears by the strike of a keyboard or push of a remote control, it is understandable why parents are afraid. There is a world of threats leaned against the door of the hotel.
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FREE RANGE OF MOVEMENT KID
Lenore Skenazy last month from New York was rated as the worst "Mother of the World" by criticism people around the country. What does the mother need to do to meet the virulent disapproval throughout the United States? She dropped her nine-year-old off at a department store in New York, and challenged him to return home safely.
In its submissions, Skenezy left his son in a New York City Bloomingdale. I wanted the challenge of finding their way back, just a subway ride and a bus home. Mom gave him a subway map, a metro card, a ticket twenty U.S. dollars coins for a phone call. She told him what to do if lost. Then went home and waited. He found his way back without incident, the mother and child, so excited about his achievement.
When you mention the case of Skenazy to friends and acquaintances who met with condemnation unrestricted. He reminded of a recent kidnapping of a young woman in Florida.
'How would you have felt if they did not come home? "
"I do not want to be the one in the TV explaining the disappearance of my daughter. "And that was before Skenazy put it in writing. As a columnist of opinion with a general inclination to humor, not waiting for the massive reaction was to come when documented in his new weekly York Sun column.
As the controversy grew, Skenazy started a blog and message board where opponents and supporters gathered to discuss. Some visitors to embrace his parents' decision to become completely, some philosophical agree but are unable to engage in the practice, and openly condemn the penal experience.
The debate gave rise to a new approach for parents, or rather, a return to an old woman. Free Range Movement boy was born. Despite accusations to the contrary, parents Free Range discourage bicycle helmets, car seats, or airbags. They do not encourage running with scissors. They want a return to the lifestyle that existed before the age of information, including the risks that come with it. Them believe it is essential to the formation of children independence and ability to make decisions. Free range parents allow their children to pre-teens to walk school alone. To ride their bikes to the library. To play in the woods without supervision.
Free Range Parents also come armed with their own counter the statistics. That a child is 40 times more likely to die in a car accident that were hijacked. That, contrary to the statistics on the Today broadcast Show, the Department of Justice U.S. shows a decline in child abductions since 1988. And since 1980, mortality rates declined by about half for children between the ages of five and fourteen.
Ventura County is home to two of the safest communities in America, Thousand Oaks and Simi Valley, although not always know. Even for parents who agree with the philosophy of the movement, I am not so simple in practice. "I think there a general feeling that open spaces are wonderful in a control situation, although there is much unsupervised potential for a predator that lurks, whether a of humans or animals. "Says Heather Quaal.
Morisawa Natasha agrees: "I think I'd be more of a" traditional free .'… Padres But for now, I will acknowledge my vulnerability and do what I can so that I can raise these kids in the world I know best. "
One side argued that the reason the numbers are down is because their children are better protected from threats. The other side argues that the threats did not exist in the first place. With many parents, the risk is too big or too frivolous. Some make little distinction between outdoor parents and criminal negligence.
NATURAL REMEDIES
What is generally agreed by both parties is the effect of this nature deficit is having on our youth. The responsibility for feeding healthy curious children safe and has not changed. Childhood obesity, caused by the body taking more calories than you burn, has tripled since 1960. Furthermore, diabetes type 2, diabetes mellitus, hypertension and obstructive sleep apnea are conditions that can lead directly to adulthood. experiences in nature have been increasingly abandoned more like one of the most effective treatments for these conditions.
In his book Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv acknowledges the challenge. "Parents already feel besieged the difficulty of balancing work and family. It is understandable that they resist the idea of adding any remaining tasks to its long list of tasks. So here is another way to see the challenge: Nature as an antidote. Stress reduction, greater physical health, a deeper sense of spirit, more creativity, sense of play, including life insurance these are the rewards that await when a family invites more nature into children's lives. "
The American Academy of Pediatrics disagrees. It is believed that increasing physical activity and change to a healthy diet can reverse many of the recent trends of disease child. Psychologically, it is considered that the outdoor physical activity increases self-esteem and self-concept, as well as reduced anxiety and depression.
The debate between the cause and symptoms continue, but ultimately irrelevant to the child sitting passively in your living room today. As children fall even more out of tune with nature, feel the lack of nature has provided lessons for young people throughout human existence. By keeping our Inside, the young, we run the risk of just a very small, often paranoid world. Parents may need to strengthen themselves to the hands of mud and knee occasional scraped are part of growth. Through this, children learn about a world of mysticism and surprise, fun and the challenge that exists beyond their electronic world. A world that awaits them outside the door screen.
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About the Author
GT Jones is a writer located in Ventura County California and publisher of Grind Show Books, Dangerous Stories for Daredevil Readers.
http://www.grindshowbooks.com
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