Free Kids

     In louvs reading Last Child In The Woods, he talks about how the lack of outdoor activities can link to problems with ADD and ADHD. I agree with Louvs argument, seeing how nowadays one of the biggest problems with children is their extreme hyperactivity. Most of these kids aren’t used to being outdoors or spending much time outside in nature and playing with other children their age. I would argue that technology definitely has a major part of why this is. 

     As a child growing up I had many friends, mostly because my mother made friends with other parents who had children my age. I remember that all I ever wanted to do was to spend time outside, running around playing tag and other games with other children. I grew up in New York City so its safe to say that there wasn’t much nature around. However we would still find trees to climb and parks to play in and kids to play with. We would find any excuse to not be indoors. Also there wasn’t much technology for us to be distracted by. Back when I was growing up, if we started getting fussy or overly hyper at home, our parents would kick us out of the house to go burn some energy with our friends. They didn’t try to solve the problem with medication. Our medication was the outdoors.