Kids should NOT be allowed outdoors.
My daughter is about to turn 3. She ate all my strawberries last year—when they were still green. She has since learned to tell ripe from not ripe. So this year, she makes a beeline for the cherry tomatoes and, morning, noon, or night, picks the ripe ones and pops them in her mouth for fresh eating. Raspberries...blueberries...same thing. Daddy gets nothing!
She is worse than a groundhog. So for heaven’s sake, keep your kids indoors! ;)
Seriously though, this article makes good points. I hate what I am becoming having to work on the computer all the time and then even using it to relax, when we could be doing fun stuff outdoors. If we intend to prevent our kids from turning into tech junkies like us, we could stand to get off the things more ourselves.
When I was 3 I dug up and ate all my mom’s Dalia bulbs.
And she has never let me live it down till this day.
My three year old begs to go outside. We restrict her TV, and have a large back yard.
Most of her playmates don’t do that.
I can relate. My 3-year-old wants to “bring me flowers” by pulling up the vegetable plants. I love you, too, Frank, but I wanted those pretty purple flowers to turn into eggplants, and the tiny yellow ones were going to be tomatoes ...