Not taking children out daily?

[Givemeabreak88]

Reading another thread it seems we should be taking our kids out everyday, I don’t do this, mine don’t want to go out every day, they would never want to just walk around the estate (we live in London and not a nice part!) there is a local park but they’ve been to it one million times now so no longer want to go, I haven’t taken them out for a while now (I don’t go shopping) is it bad to not take them out everyday? I can’t imagine getting dressed to just walk around a housing estate! What does everyone else do?

I am a single parent to an 11yo at home all day.
I work full time.

I go out every day, mostly for a run or bike (when it's not icy) or a long walk. DS comes with me for walks, or at the weekend plays football with a friend (under the 'one other member of your household' rule).
Until he outgrew his bike he would join me on bike rides, but that's in limbo at the moment.

I want him to raise his heart beat and get some fresh air every day.

We have a small house, it's just him and me all the time and sometimes it's what we need to stop tensions getting too high.

I think we will just stick to the garden then as we have a trampoline and slide and some other small garden toys, so at least that’s something.

Mine is 4 and we don't go out everyday, I wouldn't mind doing so but he's more than happy to be at home and isn't a bounce off the walls kind of kid. If you and your kids are happy enough that kind of gives you your answer, I think

No, we don’t. Mine aren’t like dogs who need to run round, they happily play.

I don’t find a walk round the block beneficial, I need a long walk with some greenery!
Try to get out for a long walk 1-2 times per week but no a 15 minute walk round the streets is pointless for us.

We do have a garden but don’t use it in winter as it’s water logged 🤷‍♀️

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That’s the same for mine they are pretty relaxed and chilled even with 4 they don’t bounce of the walls they are pretty chilled out kids

Don't worry what others do, do what is right for you.

We don't go out everyday.

My 6 year old Dd has never been an outdoorsy type anyway, nor was my 18 year old when he was little.

We've got a garden but it's wet and soggy obviously and dd would rather be drawing or playing with toys.

Each to their own really.

Most days even if it's for a short walk. Today we haven't been out so once I've picked up the smallest from nursery I think we will have a quick play in the park to get some exercise and fresh air.

We don’t walk every day but unless it’s beyond vile we do go out into the garden every day. Vitamin D from what sun there is at this time of year. If we didn’t have a garden or a balcony we’d need some kind of walk or something at least every other day. But as we were shielding we didn’t go beyond our front garden for four months last year and bouncing around in the garden was plenty to keep us healthy.

Only thing i have to watch for now is that my very anxious child gets panicky about the idea of going out if they haven’t for a while. So we need to go out reasonably often in order to keep it a normal activity.

We are only getting out once or twice a week at the moment. No one seems to be suffering. They run around indoors and see plenty of daylight as our main living room is very bright. No-one gets vitamin D from natural light in winter, you need to take a supplement.

Personally I think you should be getting dressed regardless of going out! I have to get myself and my children out every day for fresh air. I don’t think it’s healthy otherwise.

I havent been going out every day, butnon days we dont I make sure they do some yoga / joe wicks / dance class / go on the exercise bike or something similar twice throughout the day, so they are getting some exercise. And right now, they are messing about in the garden, so that's as good as a walk too, I think.

We go out daily, but we have at least 12 parks in a 3 mile radius so have been doing the rounds of those.

Very, very occasionally we have a stay at home day but the kids don't sleep as well. I don't count going in the garden as going out though. On the very odd occasion DH and I get a day off together with the kids we are outside most of the day.

My kids have ski suits and we take a packed lunch, flask and picnic blanket.

I dress in lounge wear at home, but I wouldn’t wear it outside , so that’s what I mean about getting dressed at home I’m usually in comfy lounge wear but I wouldn’t go out in it 😂

No, not every day.

Monday and Tuesday are zero days
Wednesday he has an hour of dancing
Thursday we go for a walk
Friday is a zero day
Saturday an hour of dancing
Sunday we go for a walk

In 1st lockdown we went for a walk every day but not possible at the moment with shorter days and home school schedule

Mine are 5 & 7. I don’t take them a walk every day. I feel I should but sometimes I feel that if I have to walk round the same damn park one more time my brain will explode. I try and get them to go in the garden every day, although they’re total babies about the cold in lockdown 1 they were in the garden all day every day! So hopefully once the weather gets better it’ll all improve.

I think my teen has been out 3 times since xmas. I can't bear the idea but it's such a mammoth chore to get her to go out that if shes happy(ish) then I dont want to force the issue.
In pre covid times she didnt like going out much except to shops, meet friends or mooch around a market etc.

We don't go out for similar reasons. There's nowhere to go that is close except walking around streets of houses. It's cold and wet and the oldest 3 have online classes all day during the week

None of my kids are what I would call 'walkers' as in they wouldn't thank you for walking miles in along a track. Before this happened, they did loads of extracurricular stuff after school and on a weekend and we visit places and do things on a weekend and a night and as most things they do/school are close to us, we walk a lot to school/clubs etc. They just don't want to go on a walk with no purpose.

We do go out in the garden when the weather is better but to be honest, I don't think there's going to be a problem as once they are out and back to school/clubs they'll get back into it. I can't see the harm to not go out every day at the moment.

Mine are 5 and 9 and they go out every day, even if we are just taking a mooch around the village. We go elsewhere at the weekends when we have more time. There's not a lot of time after the schoolwork and work, but I'm happy to take them out in the dark if needs be.

We walk daily. It helps all of us sleep better and decompress a bit. Even just for ten or 15 minutes, it makes a difference.

@Givemeabreak88

The thing is if we lived somewhere nicer I guess we would go out more if you have loads of lovely parks etc near by but it’s literally a housing estate and my children wouldn’t want to walk for miles aimlessly

Take them out away from the housing estate to a nice woods or park at the weekend. Maybe a scoot or walk round to the nearest park in the week once or twice. I have 2 boys in KS2 and find they need to get out most days. If not raining, I want to get out too as hate being in all day. I do think it’s important to get kids out but it doesn’t need to be every day in these circumstances!

We don’t have any where like that close enough without taking the bus, my older 2 (more so the oldest) has autism and wouldn’t cope with walking for miles. In normal times we would get the bus/train to somewhere nicer for a change of scene

We don't go out every day, even though we live right on the moors with loads of parks and woodland about. Dd (7) has never really been an energetic outdoorsy kid. We tend to go out every other day and she will bike ride or scoot for a couple of hours.

Mine don't want to go. They're 11 and 13. It's soggy and cold and there's nothing to entice them out.

We hit the park several hours everyday. Its essential for my only child. We go whatever the weather. We just have good overalls.