The Importance Of Playing Outdoors With Your Kids

Children who live in cities do not normally play outdoors, especially in larger metropolises. Almost all children play at home with their tablets, on their computers or watch TV. They are

few who can play outdoors every day in big cities.

Those with siblings can play with other children at home, but others don’t do it outdoors if we don’t take them to a park, or go on some field trip.

Playing with other children is the basics for them to learn to deal with social interactions.

Even though we are afraid of the dangers of big cities,

we have to try to get children to play in the streets or in the park because that has a lot of benefits.

If we don’t dare, we’ll have to make small family excursions into the interior, where you can enjoy nature without so many dangers. Ideally, our children could play several times a year on the beach, in the forest or on the mountain.

Benefits of playing outdoors

All children must go outside every day or at least on weekends as long as they are young.

Getting them to play outside has infinite benefits for both them and the whole family.

We can take them to the parks, take an out-of-town tour, or even take a trip to the countryside with our family. The important thing is that they can interact with nature and also with other children.

In this article, we’ll show you some of the benefits of outdoor games that

they will definitely give you ideas for spending a day in contact with nature as a family:

• Empowers children’s creativity

  because you develop your reasoning and your imagination on the street or in the field. Children do not know their surroundings and need to explore to be able to play with this new environment.

• Prevents childhood obesity,

  one of the great problems of children of our time. When children play outdoors, they have to leave their sedentary life for a few hours and leave the house, which always means physical activity.

• It favors relationships with other children, which is complicated if they are always at home.

  Playing with other children is very important for them to socialize

  and learn to share with others.

• Tend to be more autonomous and independent

  and learn to face different problems and complicated situations. For example, they may find an unknown insect or some interesting mineral that arouses their curiosity and doubts.

Enjoying playing outside early on

If we get used to going out with our kids to the park or the countryside once or twice a week, it’s certain that soon the whole family will enjoy these activities.

If we do it regularly, we will be able to enjoy nature with the family and certainly spend an unforgettable day.

Since children are young, we have to make sure they are in contact with the outdoors and nature.

Even if they are babies, it will be a great help for them to experience their relationship to the external world involving the five senses.

Since babies,

they can walk and crawl on the grass or sand of the beach, experience different textures and even experience the different sounds of nature. We can invent games so that they get to know, for example, the texture of the leaves and trunks of trees, the peculiar odors of nature or the sounds of the different animals that we can find in the countryside.

For sure, these experiences will provide the baby with a great knowledge of the world around them, and will stimulate all their senses.

the little ones will be able to learn many words and experience sensations directly, when being in contact with nature.

When they grow, it is also important that they play outdoors

for them to move, exercise, socialize with other children and enjoy all the senses of nature. The little ones will consume energy, 

will burn calories

and you will sleep much better.

Don’t doubt it… try to get them to play outdoors at least twice a week.