I don’t know about all the psychological gobbledegook here, but playing sandlot baseball and football, the neighborhood tree house, walking/biking around town, exploring woods and hanging out with the neighbor kids were fond fond memories. I nary see kids doing such things today, and haven noticed that for many years.
Technologies and safety reasons. The former keeps kids inside. The latter is a natural concern given all the creeps and weirdos out there, thanks to the left and its constituencies.
I saw one article that coincides with what I have seen personally. Modern playgrounds bore the hell out of kids. Gone are swings, merry go rounds, jungle gyms, see saws, two story slides, etc etc.
Replaced with cheap plastic climbing platforms with a 6 foot slide on mulched rubber mats. Entertaining for all of five minutes.
Don't allow yourself or your children to fall victim to this mindset! I don't have kids yet, but my wife and I are active GeoCachers. This hide-and-seek sort of treasure-hunting game has taken us to places we never knew existed; parks that have fallen into disrepair; parts of the coastal mangrove forests that have been untouched for decades or more; and areas long hidden from the "cultured" among society.
It has the added bonus of requiring the use of handheld GPS devices, and I've often come upon GXers with their kids leading the charge to a cache. They take their iPhones or handheld GPS devices and go running headlong into spider-web-spanned forest paths or heavily-root-laden walks in search of a cleverly-hidden cache.
I agree wholeheartedly with the assessments in this article, but all is not lost. Families can participate in outdoor activities together if safety is an issue. I've never GXed without a sidearm, and that's something that no one needs to know but you. To boot, when you do come across a magical place that's seemingly untouched by suburban sprawl, there's nothing better, now as an adult, than sitting down in the overgrown grasses and looking to the skies remembering what it was like to be a kid. I hope that those very same memories can be embedded in my child's mind when they're born.
Indeed, they want children indoors so as to not face reality but fantasy, so as to make their classless society of widespread weaklings with no raw experience whatsoever all the more “real”.
Yep, these people are not going to survive the future. No wonder we have the gay parade.