The modern world and the accompanying rise of the internet certainly do hold one or two major advantages, not least the way information about different countries, lifestyles, cultures, and individual people is shared much more easily and effectively.

However, video games and, perhaps to a slightly lesser degree, social media platforms are also causing the vast majority of young people to spend their free time after school and the entirety of their weekends cooped up indoors, cozy inside their bedrooms, playing games and using their tablets or smartphones.

If you, like many parents across the country, are eager for your children to grow up enjoying the outdoors as you most likely did when you were younger, then continue reading to learn four effective ways to encourage your children to play outside. 

• White Lie About Wi-Fi

For younger children, one fantastic and extremely simple way of ensuring that your child does not spend the entirety of Saturday on their PlayStation or other games console is to start to inform them that the Wi-Fi only works for a certain amount of time each day. 

When your child becomes older, it may well then be time to explain that the use of the internet is on a play-as-you-earn basis, in exchange for outside chores and completed schoolwork, rather than giving them unlimited access.

• Buy Them A Skateboard

Skateboarding is one of the coolest and most exciting outdoor hobbies you could encourage your child to pick up, and they will simply not be able to help themselves when presented with such a gift from getting outside and having a go. 

Along with the board itself, ensure that you also invest in a high-quality skateboarding helmet, such as an impressive-looking Triple 8 Gotham, as well as knee and elbow pads. Skateboarding is both addictive and competitive, and your child simply can’t resist the 

• Build A Pond 

Another fantastic and exciting way to encourage your child to spend their weekends and summer evenings after school playing in the backyard and enjoying time with the rest of the family is to add a pond. 

Whether you choose to build a pond that can comfortably house large fish, such as Koi Carp, or else a more natural and plant-based bond, you will soon find frogs and other species of wildlife will begin to make it their new home. Your child will love to see the frogspawn turn into cute little tadpoles and the tadpoles into even more frogs to share their garden with. 

• Hold Birthday Parties Outside

Naturally, children of any age are at their happiest when they are spending time with their school friends, so when it comes to arranging their next birthday party, why not book a location that involves all the children getting back to nature and down and dirty in the mud,

From woodland adventures to adventure activity days such as Go Ape to a trip to the local zoo, arranging parties and gatherings in nature will both let children associate the natural world with adventure and excitement and hopefully even encourage them to care about the environment as they grow up. 

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