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In Finland fear for crime towards our children nor trafficaccidents are not issues hindering our youth to experience nature by nonsupervised play. Parents do allow children to play and even incourages them to do so after schooldays, BUT children often themselves choose to play videogames or spending time with a computer in the Internet...
What I have studied about the actual crimerates towards children and youth, they are extremely marginal and rare. Yet the fear for crime hinders so many possibilities to form close relationship to nature.. Everyone schould try to put the fear behind if possible.
Hi Taina. Welcome to the forum. It's interesting to read your insights and perspective. It sounds like fear is not as pervasive in Finland as in other countries. And yet children are not in nature by their own choice? (In the U.S., we have both factors at work - parental fear as well as the lure of electronic media.)
This is such a potent discussion. I dealt with it a lot in my own life when my daughter was 10 and under. By Middle School, it seemed many parents eased up and started allowing their children to walk, bike, and play in parks unsupervised in our small town. As a Scout leader, I had to convince the parents not to drive the troop to a destination when they could have a fun, 10-minute walk together instead. (Very sad - also another factor at work there was that the parents thought driving would be more efficient.) We have a lot of notions to overcome, I think, in order to give more children some experiences in nature (nearby and otherwise.)
Taina Laaksoharju said:In Finland fear for crime towards our children nor trafficaccidents are not issues hindering our youth to experience nature by nonsupervised play. Parents do allow children to play and even incourages them to do so after schooldays, BUT children often themselves choose to play videogames or spending time with a computer in the Internet...
What I have studied about the actual crimerates towards children and youth, they are extremely marginal and rare. Yet the fear for crime hinders so many possibilities to form close relationship to nature.. Everyone schould try to put the fear behind if possible.
You all might be interested in Richard Louv's latest blog entry, which addresses the issue of fear as it relates to getting children out into nature: Hummingbird Parents: 7 Actions Parents Can Take to Increase Outdoor Safety. Lots of ideas! NING's Bethe Almeras and Juliet Robertson are quoted. http://bit.ly/dh1Irb
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