Il terzo dei bambini non gioca all’aperto dopo la scuola, la ricerca nel Regno Unito trova
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/aug/29/children-uk-outdoors-play-society-school-research
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Il terzo dei bambini non gioca all’aperto dopo la scuola, la ricerca nel Regno Unito trova
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/aug/29/children-uk-outdoors-play-society-school-research
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There’s too many dangers outside, probably best keep them indoors on smartphones, where there aren’t any.
Well that is horrifying.
I used to teach in Brighton and many children had never been to the seaside.
Mine do but people complain about that too
Hey ho
I find it more surprising that 2/3rds of children still play outdoors after school.
In all fairness when I was a kid, we were playing knock off ginger and climbing trees.
These days it’s a iPad.
Are you not outside if you’re surfing the information superhighway?
After coming home, I used to stuff myself for lunch and patiently waited for half an hour. Then I run for the door and play with my mates. I had to wait because my mum was fed up with me vomiting and not letting my lunch digest. I thank my parents and my mates for giving me a proper childhood.
Being grounded truly was miserable.
There’s also the slightly ridiculous situation of primary school kids being set loads of homework
There was a tag team of van couriers trying to abduct little girls in my very rural, very low crime area. (Not from our area / country).
Pedophiles get a slap on the wrist. If I lived in a city, id also have to worry about gangs and knives.
The world our kids are growing up in isn’t the same as ours in the 90’s or the 00s.
It’s not always easy especially in the autumn and winter. Work + commute + bad weather. You might not be home until after 5. There’s cooking and cleaning to be done.
Further to that, play with who and where? The roads are always busy, and other parents are in the same boat. Even play dates with kids on the same street require communication and coordination.
That said I have a 4 year old no idea why older kids aren’t being kicked outside to play.
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Mainstream and social media have convinced parents that the outside world is full of dangers (even though kids are more at risk from people they know). However, this has been going on for decades so what we have now is a generation of 20/30-something parents who themselves weren’t allowed to play outside.
Then add on to that how smartphones and tablets have been used as a pacifier to the extent some kids are hooked on youtube and tiktok. It’s not that surprising.
Based on my daughter’s friends a lot of kids have activities almost every day after school.
A lot also go to after school clubs which allow outside play if weather is ok.
Part of it is boomers and people on next door thinking children should be locked up for so much as laughing to.loud or kicking a football.
There isn’t anything to do outside now other than loiter in groups of friends then be accused of intimidating older people. No activity areas, parks with nothing but used needles and broken glass in them and then they’re told no ball games, oh, and don’t go there because strangers will kidnap you and now we’ve got the far right being actively signal boosted by mainstream politics because they’re scared of losing the racist vote – so anyone vaguely “foreign” looking is either to be frightened of or intimidated by the loitering group who have nothing else to do.
Do we honestly blame kids for going on their phones or PlayStation? I’m 40 and my generation got this sort of stuff at school age, I can’t even contemplate what it is like as a kid growing up now. I can’t understand anyone wanting to have a kid today. You’d be doing it for reasons more about yourself if you ask me, they have nothing to look forward to
Cars play a massive part in this, the amount of people that drive like morons and the amount of cars now on the roads make it less and less safe. Then you have all the idiots complaining about low traffic neighbourhoods because they think the government is trying to stop them ever leaving.
I live in an area where there is a great park and the kids are out there constantly. It’s brilliant, but I know we’re lucky to have it. This bit interested me though:
>The lead researcher Dr Mark Ferguson said: “There’s established evidence showing outdoor play has declined by a lot, which is worrying because it is linked to various health issues, including obesity, anxiety and depression.
Is that cause or effect? Are anxious kids less likely to play outside because they are anxious with other triggers for that anxiety?
“No ball games”
Start by taking those fucking signs down then.
We walk home together, and sometimes go to the park for a little bit. But I can’t let him play in the street. one, he’d be the only kid playing in the street, two, it’s lined on both sides with cars, three, people keep driving their massive cars along our street. He does play in the back garden sometimes, but not great when it’s wet and dark!
When i grew up, there were 3 channels on the telly.
When it came to deciding what we watched, there were 2 people ahead of me.
SO i went outside and did graffitti. it was a no brainer.
To be fair, most British people won’t be happy until 100% of kids are staying indoors. If kids go outside they might kick a ball, or ride a bike, or walk on the grass, or speak, or generally make the place look untidy. Something something national service something something.
There are kids running up and down my street every day, has been the same everywhere I lived. I’ve lived in some shitholes too.
Helicopter parenting and it depends where you live.