JKW states that as long as a kid is healthy, who cares if they know where their food comes from, or spend lots of time outside.

These young people are the next generation of lawmakers. If they have no knowledge of nature, wouldn’t it make sense that they would also have no knowledge of how to preserve it?

Let’s hope the Kissimee River and our food production stay intact, but without knowledge and stewardship, it will likely fall to the highest bidder.”

WELL PUT!

JKW states that as long as a kid is healthy, who cares if they know where their food comes from, or spend lots of time outside.

These young people are the next generation of lawmakers. If they have no knowledge of nature, wouldn’t it make sense that they would also have no knowledge of how to preserve it?

Let’s hope the Kissimee River and our food production stay intact, but without knowledge and stewardship, it will likely fall to the highest bidder.

You said, “As long as the kids are healthy, who cares if … they play outside”. I think part of the problem is that there are many kids who unfortunately aren’t healthy, partly because of the attraction of all types of technology/media helps to keep them entertained and indoors. It’s also partly due to diet, and other things as well. It’s not the technology itself that’s the problem, it’s that they spend too much time with it.

I agree that people, or maybe I would limit that to adults, can do whatever they want and if they don’t enjoy nature, that’s their choice.

But when it comes to young kids, they need parents to help them make wise choices and to provide a good balance of all sorts of experiences in the kids life until they’re old enough to make wise decisions for themselves.

It’s certainly not a disorder.

As technology has progressed, it allows us, if we choose to, not to have to experience nature, or to be able to experience it from a distance. Just because I enjoy hiking in the mountains or kyaking down the restored Kissimee River, doesn’t mean everyone else does — o r should be expected to do those things.

As long as the kids are healthy, who cares if they know where their food comes from, or spend lots of time outside.

My oldest child has his own PC, which he is very proficient at using, but he still loves to go outside, catch bugs, ride his bicycle, scrape his knee, etc.

Come on when the speed and pace of life is going way too fast for anyone to keep up you know that the fundamental problem is with the economic social order, parents and people are too lazy to think about joining unions and reducing the crazy amount of hours they work for fear of being fired and whatnot, think about how people live and work today and it’s insanity.