Jackie, a ten -year -old, stood with a small skillet in open fire fire, speaking fun, when popcorn caught.
With no sign of panic, her mother put fire in a nearby trench. Then Jackie and her eight -year -old brother, Michael, cook a second batch quietly.
“This is more fun than other stadiums,” Michael said. “You can hunt fish, you can go in water and build huts. Sometimes, draw my mom and you can really run!”
Their mother, Marilyn Kulsom, 44, is a teacher and artist in the first year, called WoESTE WESTEN (“” Wild West “) The forests play in Amsterdam-West the sky all of them.
She said, “I am a teacher in a school where they encourage playing risk.” “He learns about the borders.”
It is also a kind of risky play that local advisers want to spread through Amsterdam, to replace the rubber tiles and boring playgrounds that they say has been built in recent years. A new policy of the Liberal Democrats D66 suggests granting all children in the Dutch capital to reach outdoor playing areas to climb and play with water and fire, sword with sticks, construction with hammers, rope or knives, struggle and fall. They say that “swing play” means that children may get a stumbling or reduction, “according to politics-but it is an acceptable risk, they say.
“Inspiration, which is a really big problem, is that children are barely moved,” said Rob Hofland, head of the local D66 department and his proud uncle of children. “All kinds of problems stem from just sitting behind the screen. We see increasing numbers of fatigue and learn more than ever about the incorrectness that the Dutch – European champions sitting – Very stable. Things need change, and young people begin. “
Although the number of children with weight gain is relatively stable in Holland17 %, the number rises to 25 % for children from 18 to 24 years. There was a “disturbing” increase in childhood diabetes, according to diabetes, while kinetic skills decreased to the point that many children could no longer pick up a ball.
A survey last year from Jantje Beton, which is carrying out the open -air play campaigns, suggested that the number of Dutch children playing alone abroad without supervision of adults from 25 % in 2022 to 13 % last year. Almost half is playing more inside, compared to a third before the roaming epidemic.
Mascha Van Werven, Executive Director, anxiety. She said: “More and more children lose the ability to social contact, to learn how to deal with risks and also be happy when the situation becomes a little tired,” she said. “If you know that they are still playing in these [riskier] The areas, they start at a very early age to deal with risks, and may ask someone to help … to back down and try again. “
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The Netherlands is one of the happiest countries in the world, according to the front studies, and local studies find that many children in particular appreciate the opportunities they enjoy to ride mood cycling, as well as their supportive families. But it is far from being concerned about increasing paternity and motherhood in helicopters, which suffocates young people’s ability to anticipate, avoid and deal with potential risks. In an article in nature In January, Canadian and Norwegian researchers pointed to the benefits of risky play-but not completely dangerous-abroad, helping children build convertible risk management skills.
Difficult activity is vital to cognitive ability, according to Eric Sherir, a professor of clinical nervous psychology at Freiji Universit Amsterdam and a member of the Dutch Sports Council, who called for a focus on more government focus on playing abroad. He said: “What you can do abroad includes a motor function but also cognitive functions: the interaction between the two is difficult – and the challenge is exactly what you need when you have a developing brain.” “Nerve cells should be stimulated every time in a different way, not just repeating the same.”
While no one encourages children at risk, Martin Hope, a biology teacher and a non -profit founder WoESTE WESTENIt is believed that parents should retreat more. He said: “Every stadium, council, father and school must weigh the risks for interest.” “There is a danger, but my child learns mentally and physically. If you always say:” Don’t do it, be careful, be careful! “, You take away a lot of opportunities for development.”
Returning to the play forest, Jackie recalled the fully clothing in the water, to the joy of her brother. She said: “I turn a float and went under it.” “It does not prevent me, anyway!”
