The Outdoor Child Should be an ‘Indicator Species’ for London - Children & Nature Network (C&NN)

The Outdoor Child Should be an ‘Indicator Species’ for London - Children & Nature Network (C&NN)

This is article shows how you can measure the health of your community by paying attention to how many children under age 12 are playing outdoors in your community. It offers suggestions on how to monitor this and recommendations on who to work with in changing the current status quo. I don't know how much research like this is going on in my city, however I don't think enough. My own informal research says that I don't see kids just playing out of doors. I don't see that many kids biking past my house going to play with friends. I would love to see planning in my community use kids as a measure of success!