Children need to learn just how good playing in the great outdoors can be, says Nicholas Roe. Fiona Danks and Jo Schofield offer two horrible stories to explain exactly why they want to get your children off their bottoms and out into the countryside. The first one sounds so strange you'll hardly believe it's true – but, honestly, it is. Danks, a writer and ecologist from South Oxfordshire, took a group of children for a countryside picnic the other day, threw a rug on the ground and laid out some food for her hungry young guests. |
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