Playing Outdoors is Important for Kids

Kids play outdoors

Playing outdoors is a key to a child's growth. Every parent wants their children to become healthy, active, creative, have good emotional development, and become well-rounded. However, often parents are confused about how to ensure their child's growth and development are carried out well. If we don't encourage children to play outdoors, the possibility of obesity, immune system disorders, and emotional disorders will threaten them. So, the best way to avoid these disturbances for your kids is to get them outside.

Firstly, letting children spend at least one hour outside can prevent them from getting health issues. In this modern era, many parents are neglectful of their children's growth. In this era, gadgets are already widely used by adults, teenagers, and even children. More often than not children play with their gadgets. Their outside exercise will decrease, causing them to become lazy children. Therefore, getting children's activity patterns used to play outside can build children's active lifestyle. The more children play outdoors, they can get more experience and exercise to improve their physical ability, good immune system, and balanced emotional development. 

Secondly, when children play outside, they are more likely to be active and explore nature. They will definitely move and be active a lot, which will help avoid obesity. During their childhood, their curiosity and inquisitiveness are very high, so by playing outdoors, they will discover many interesting new things. Little bodies' muscles could be stronger if they do some exercise outside, such as running, jumping, climbing,  skin-to-skin contact with nature, and so on. Those activities build up their endurance and set them up for a healthy lifestyle, especially if we implement them in a child’s early years. It will help children maintain an active lifestyle into adulthood.

Lastly, allowing children to play outdoors will stimulate children's sensory and motor skills. Objects found in nature can be used as tools to train their sensory and motor skills. Playing outdoors encourages them to put their abilities through trial and error. They are able to develop new skills by playing outdoors. Their courage to try new things also allows them to develop a sense of independence as they become more confident in their abilities. This means that playing outside can help their emotional development. In addition, the opportunities to explore and use their imagination in nature grow their creative thinking and abilities.

For those reasons, it is very important to improve kids physical abilities, immune system, and emotional development by encouraging them to play outdoors. Considering the further negative impact if kids do not play outdoors. Parents must be more open to building their children's abilities from an early age. They must encourage children to explore, try new things, and discover their new skills.