Entry #2: Growing Up Outside

Growing up you used to always see kids playing football in the street or riding their bikes around the block. Nowadays it is rare to even see a kid in the front yard. There's sometimes that one street in each neighborhood that has kids on it. But other that you never see them. It didn't matter to us if it was raining or 110 degrees outside. It would give us an excuse to run out in the rain or have a water ballon fight. Even after most of us would shower and get cleaned up we'd still go out there and run around. It's sad to know some of our younger siblings didn't get the childhood we had. Kids are so wrapped up in technology nowadays it's hard to get them to go do physical activity.  It's just sad that the more technology grows the more the front yard play decreases. My hope is that when my generations grows to become parents we encourage our kids to go outside with the neighborhood kids. Allow them to have the amazing childhood some of us had.