> Being the devil's advocate for a second: why? For their health. > If they become adult white collar workers they will be indoors most of the time, interacti

> Being the devil's advocate for a second: why? For their health. > If they become adult white collar workers they will be indoors most of the time, interacting with technology. Which is bad enough. But if they've led an active life as children, their base health profile will be vastly better than if they'd been sedentary since they were toddlers, and many of them might even carry the habit of physical exercise with them into adulthood. This will vastly improve their quality of life from as early as their late twenties, and definitely by their forties. (Source: I was a bookworm from [before?] first grade, never took an interest in sports, and obese from my teens... And I was still probably more active as a child than many children today. Basic military training was Hell, and the metabolic syndrome I was diagnosed with in my mid-late forties blossomed into full-on type II diabetes in my early fifties. Not super fun.) > I loved being outside as a kid and teen, but is it really deleterious if the new generations don't get exposed to that? Not for us perhaps, but for them.