Benefits of Nature Play, Nature Defecit Amanda England Benefits of Nature Play, Nature Defecit Amanda England

Your Child Doesn’t Need Another Organised Activity. They Need Dirt.

Let’s be real.

The average five-year-old today can swipe a screen before they can climb a tree.

We’ve created a generation of tiny adults — programmed, polished, and permanently supervised. Their schedules are packed tighter than a CEO’s calendar. Gymnastics. Swimming Lessons. Little Kickers. Meanwhile, the last time they played in the mud? Can’t remember. Maybe never.

And here’s the punchline: we call this enrichment.

Let us say it louder for the everyone in the back…

Children are not a productivity project. They’re a wild thing. And wild things need the wild.

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