Re:Alarming Decline of Quality Youth Playtime
by technologyvault on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @03:19PM
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I'm currently in the process of moving my family (including 6 kids) from a 1/3 acre lot in Utah (there really isn't much land here because it's a desert) to a 15-acre farm in Tennessee for these reasons exactly.
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Re:Alarming Decline of Quality Youth Playtime
by nickthegreek on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @03:54PM
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I went from a 1/4 lot in a city to a 12 acre lot in the country when I was around 8. My dad gave my brother and I a compass, taught us how to use it and encouraged us to roam the woods as a form of play/exploration. If we got lost, we ended up at the neighbors house a good 25 acres away and they would just call our parents to pick us up.
It was a bit of culture shock when I went to college and found out how restrictive other peers youth were.