Helping Kids to Play Outdoors

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Herald Scotland – June 29, 2010
By Vicki Allan

Few of today’s children enjoy the carefree, roaming, outdoor days that previous generations did. But change is on the way ... The woods of Castlemilk Park in Glasgow once belonged to Grace Lamont, her friends, her peers and their free-wheeling imaginations. Growing up in the tenements close by, they treated them as their own adventure playground, congregating there, roaming from bridge to burn to waterfall. Although they didn’t have much in the way of toys, they didn’t need them: the outdoors exercised their bodies and minds. That was 40 years ago. Now those woods are empty, lost to infant imaginations, out of…

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