Climate change: Child’s play? Is about how climate can affect the opportunity for children to play outdoors. Playing outside is very important for the physical and mental development of children. If children have a lack of playing outside than they won’t be as active and healthy as the kids that do experience playing outside. Climate can be affected by many different factors including, increasing air pollution, and extreme temperatures. Children will become less active and are limited to ways to play if they are indoors. Overall I concluded that outdoor play equals a better life. This is why it’s extremely important to keep our outside environments as clean as possible. Climate change affects many different every day resources to keep children happy and healthy. Climate can affect infrastructure such as healthcare, education, food and water security, and housing. We need to make a change now in order to prevent decreasing outdoor play for future generations to come. What would you think about your kids not being able to play outside like you did as a child? It wouldn’t be fair. Playing outside is essential to child development and is a necessity for a child to grow and have fun. Climate change is dangerous for our children and we now know that climate change is a big factor of allowing kids to play outside.
Reference
Prasad, T. (2016). Climate change: Child's play? Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 52(4), 471-472.
I agree with this article! Climate change would greatly affect the way children play. Not being able to go outside will limit their physical activity as they won't be able to do the same activities inside.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with all your statements. I cannot imagine a world where children can't play outside. Climate change is a major problem and we need to change in order to save outdoor play for our children. Without outdoor play our children will not be able to exercise and experience the outdoors like they would just playing indoors.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with everything that this article is about, and with what you had to say about it. But as much as we need exercise, I feel like kids playing outside has already gone away without the help of climate change. With the new technologies, kids would rather stay inside staring at a screen anyway. So as much as climate control affects kids exercise, technology had already started too.
ReplyDeleteThis is an interesting article, it made me learn facts on there new technologies,it sad how kids would stay home and do nothing and its sad how technology has affected kids. This article is great to learn from but it makes me mad that there no change
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