Balanced and Barefoot
by Angela J. Hanscom
A pediatric occupational therapist on why children need unstructured outdoor play for sensory and motor development, and what its absence is doing to attention and strength. Persuasive and practical.
Read it if…
your children are indoors too much and you want the developmental case for changing that.
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Skip it if…
you already homestead with free-range kids.
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Three things you will actually use
- Movement builds attention.
- Risk is developmental.
- Outside, unstructured, daily.
Do this first
Give your child an hour of unstructured outdoor play daily for two weeks.
Our verdict
The case for outdoor play.
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