Indoor/Outdoor Time
There are over 400 outdoor preschools in the USA, sometimes called these.
What are forest- or nature-based programs?
This is a hugely popular and well known children's educational program.
What is Sesame Street?
Children between 8 and 12 years of age are sometimes called these.
What are tweens?
These are nonparental adults who offer guidance and support to a child/teen while having a positive and trusting relationship with them.
What is a mentor?
This is the kind of activity that most children take part in.
What are sports?
This was the most popular outdoor activity reported for children in 2019.
What is biking?
This show was developed to help promote the social and emotional development in children.
What is Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood?
These are the six C's in positive youth development.
What are competence, confidence, connection, care/compassion, character, and contribution to the community?
This approach does not focus on deficits in children, but rather on helping them reach their full potential.
What is positive youth development (PYD)?
This amount of daily minutes is the recommended amount of moderate or vigorous activities.
What is 60 minutes?
These are the four goals developed by the America’s Great Outdoors Initiative.
What are
Make the outdoors relevant to today’s young people: Make it inviting, exciting, and fun.
Ensure that all young people have access to outdoor places that are safe, clean, and close to home.
Empower and enable youth to work and volunteer in the outdoors.
Build on a base of environmental and outdoor education, both formal and informal?
This was the most popular site in 2018 according to US teens.
What is Youtube?
This is important for development of self-directed executive function.
What is unstructured (leisure) time?
A spontaneously developing relationship with a nonparental adult and child.
What is a natural mentor?
This body part is the most common to get injured in sports.
What is the ankle?
This type of time allows teens to continue to develop an identity separate from their parents and to learn how to manage themselves with their peers
What is time spent with peers?
How children and their parents can better understand the effects of media and how to use it most effectively to promote rather than harm their development.
What is media literacy?
These are three characteristics that activities for positive youth development have.
What are: positive interaction with an adult that continues for at least 1 year; development of real-world life skills and; involvement in and leadership of activities valued by the child’s community .
This is when you start and end with positive feedback and insert constructive criticism in the middle.
What is the positive sandwich?
These were the least common injuries diagnosed in emergency rooms in 2012.
What are concussions?
Outdoor activity time helps reduce levels of this.
What is obesity?
This is when media use displaces the time children and teens would otherwise be doing homework and other, more healthful activities
What is the displacement hypothesis?
This is one of the main reasons for decreased outdoor activity time.
These are four characteristics that make both parent-child and mentoring relationships work.
What are closeness, warmth, consistency, and structure?
These are more likely to suffer a concussion than these.
What are girls and boys?