To think children need to get out in the fresh air every single day

[lkissaa]

Obviously every now and again if they're ill or parents feel like a lazy day but generally, I feel it's very very important for children to be outside getting exercise every day. It helps stimulate their brain, keep them fit and healthy and helps to use up their energy so they sleep better at night. Even if it's just in the local park or even just the garden.

I've worked extensively with children with behavioural problems and while many of them have more deep-routed issues, in many cases once the parent started taking the child out every day for exercise and outside play, the behaviours improved massively and in some cases almost disappeared.

When I was a child my Dad took us out every day for walks and we loved it. Playing outside.

I hat to compare children to dogs, but dogs get very disturbed if they don't have a walk every day and in some ways I feel children are the same. They don't need walking, but they do need fresh air and a change of scenery.

AIBU to think that?

Wow op. this is a friend? Glad you said this because with all that holier than thou judging going on it wasn't easy to tell.. you judged her and her dd. Niiiice.

Mind your own business. Your friend can work her own life out.

These people that are out all day every day, how do you get anything done?! We've just been out for the day and my house looks like a bomb has gone off.

round here the pavements are a little unsavoury (vomit, dogshit, takeaways, broken glass are always scattered across the pavement, along with the occasional needle) throw in being too narrow to walk three abreast (children with disabilities needing holding as they run off/fall/walk into traffic/topple off the pavements) there is often heavy traffic/traffic jams (articulated lorries, double decker buses on a road where they can hardly pass each other and the pavement is one person wide) or when less traffic, speeding motorcyclists and cars, and twats who park on the pavement and cyclists who cycle on the wider bits of pavement.

then there are the idiots who let fireworks off in the street or chuck things off the balconies of the tower block.. .

oh and there is a murder approx every two years within half a mile..

yeah, lovely going out here.

Vitamin d anyone?

You won't be making much vitamin D outside at the moment, or anytime until next April or so.