{"id":2381,"date":"2010-05-20T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/how-to-get-your-children-to-play-outdoors.html"},"modified":"2016-09-21T09:43:29","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T13:43:29","slug":"how-to-get-your-children-to-play-outdoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2381","title":{"rendered":"How to Get Your Children to Play Outdoors"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I remember my mom … “Go outside, you’re driving me crazy!!” Then, we’d bolt for the door, and go hang with our friends, in the woods, in the yard, in the little swatch of woods in the back. <\/div>\n
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“Playing Outside” is an indicator of how our Culture of Health is not helping us. Kids are, less and less, playing outside. Plus, if you tell your kids to go out on a beautiful day, that turns out to just be a code for, “Go play video games and eat nastiness at your friends’ house.”<\/div>\n
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I think that, in addition to parents looking at school districts when deciding where to buy a home, they ask about the number of kids who play outside. If you have THAT neighborhood, you’ll have a better chance of having a more active child. <\/div>\n
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How to Get Your Children to Play Outdoors<\/a><\/p>\n

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