The Winchester Sun – Craig Caudill
For those that have been following my column since it started only a few short weeks ago, you may remember that I mentioned some startling statistics about children and the outdoors. One disheartening one is that publicly educated children on average spend less time outside daily than the average prison inmate. There is a video that is widely circulated that details the statistics as well as interviews with inmates. The interviewer tells the inmates about the this and you can see how sad it makes the inmates. Even they know how important and desirable it is to go outside. So why do we not purpose ourselves to spend more time outside with our kids? Obviously, there are a host of reasons and they vary from family to family. (more)