Whatever happened to "Go Outside And Play ???"

Buy this book for your kids..Boys AND girls..

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The Dangerous Book for Boys




I just heard of this today, from one of my coworkers.
I'll be buying a copy for myself!


[edit on 21-11-2008 by spacedoubt]

reply to post by anxietydisorder

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You are absolutely correct; however, there is even more to it than that. Have you noticed throughout your lifetime how much more often people get sick now? Adults as well as children. We have become through our technology less apt to be outdoors. The sun is the greatest source of vitamin D, 15 minutes in the sunlight with sunscreen of spf 8 or lower is the equivalent of approximately 60 glasses of vitamin D fortified milk. Vitamin D is what fortifies our immune system and is quite necessary for good health. Many of you may have noticed you cat lying in the driveway on a sunny winter day licking their fur, that is how animals retrieve the vitamin D from the sun as they do not have pores in their skin as we do. With humans the sunlight causes the skin to produce natural vitamin D and then is absorbed through the pores in our skin. So with that being said, can you see why not only our children but also us as adults are getting sicker every year concurrently with technological advancements that keep us in the house more often than not? 15 minutes of sunlight can produce as much as 400 units of vitamin D which is what the adult body requires daily for a healthy immune system. So if you want to get sick less often, go out in the sun more. Also it is important to note that the body stores vitamin D, so the more time you spend in the sun in the summer, the more stored vitamin D you have available to your body in the winter months when outside is not an attractive option.

Happy Thanksgiving to all.

By keeping them inside you doom them to a life filled with illness. Suggestion: go outside and watch them, the sun is good for you too.

Well at least the sunlight and corresponding production of vitamin D will somewhat offset some of the damage being done to them by the microwave emissions of the cell phone.

I did a research project on this in grad school and what I found might just amaze you. The video games although they do stimulate some mental awareness's actually cause more mental damage than they do good. It has been proven that visual focus and peripheral vision suffers the most, but it also creates a mental singular focus which makes awareness of outside stimuli much more difficult to recognize and react to, which in itself could have damning effects in life. Also studies suggest that it causes long term damage to the eyes and most of our youth will wind up either wearing glasses or needing corrective surgery because of it, just watch throughout your lifetime at the amount of people you know whom will need visual corrections be it; glasses, contacts, or surgery far before it would be considered typical to need these visual aids and corrective proceedures.

[edit on 11/26/2008 by DarrylGalasso]

Makes me proud to have played outside when I was younger, but I also loved watching cartoons, drawing, playing with toys, and videogames. I grew up in the 90s just to mention. I loved doing all of those things as a kid, especially going outside to catch bugs and the stuff young boys did around that age.

Perhaps it has something to do with the generation's parents these days. Maybe they are too laid back? I don't know, but if all the kid's do is watch tv and do games, then they are missing out on the outdoor fun.

I will definitely keep this in mind for when I have children. I guess sometimes, people just slip into the technology world that the old methods are just , out of date to them. Kinda like....cassette tape to CD and the like. It just shifts out.

So parents out there, if your kids are indoors all day, get them some outdoor activities and have fun!