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This Wednesday I attended the workshop with Linda Weintraub. We began sitting out outside with Ms. Weintraub and spoke about how most humans today do not keep in touch with manmade objects and we are taken over by things like cellphones or cement-paved streets. She asked us all how much time we believed to spend touching manmade objects and her answer was 2%. This was a very interesting concept to me because I never really thought of life this way. Following this meeting outside the room, we finally found our way into the room she had set up for us. I was told not to talk and as I went into the room, I went to find my first box and read the directions. The directions told me to smell inside the box and explain what I had smelt. After I had completed this, I went over to my next box and I was told to keep my eyes closed and take a guess at what is in the box based on my other senses, such as touch and smell. After venturing around in the outside circles, I then approached the center and I went barefoot on the surfaces that were covered in stuff such as pine needles and real moss from Linda Weintraub's woods from home. Weintraub had said in the beginning that the purpose of this is to help us realize we have as much sensory feelings in our feet than our whole body.
One of my breakthrough moments is how much I realized that how our generation lacks a relationship with the environment outside the streets of LA. Also, I did not realize how little I use the senses in my feet. It is crazy to think that when I was a child, I would constantly go outside, barefoot even, and just be in touch with the outside environment. I would always be playing sports outside or playing in the grass playing tag or what not. Furthermore, I realized how my daily life does not include me being in the wilderness or in the natural environment anymore. According to Katherine Martinko, when kids play outside they are able to create friendships faster and embrace the outdoors. I agree because many of my friends I used to play outside with are still people in my life today.
I believe that children in today's world do not go outside due to the innovation of technology and how society makes it seem that we MUST be attached to technology to be accepted in society. Many kids, such as myself, would rather just play video games than go outside to play to stay away from all the dirty things in the world and all the things our parents warn us about. One thing this hinders is for kids to grow the ability to make new friendships with those around them and to go outside and get familiar with their surroundings. I think parents play a big part in this when children are young. If the parents promote activities outside early on, the children will follow this way of life forever until they have their own children.
Resources:
One of my breakthrough moments is how much I realized that how our generation lacks a relationship with the environment outside the streets of LA. Also, I did not realize how little I use the senses in my feet. It is crazy to think that when I was a child, I would constantly go outside, barefoot even, and just be in touch with the outside environment. I would always be playing sports outside or playing in the grass playing tag or what not. Furthermore, I realized how my daily life does not include me being in the wilderness or in the natural environment anymore. According to Katherine Martinko, when kids play outside they are able to create friendships faster and embrace the outdoors. I agree because many of my friends I used to play outside with are still people in my life today.
I believe that children in today's world do not go outside due to the innovation of technology and how society makes it seem that we MUST be attached to technology to be accepted in society. Many kids, such as myself, would rather just play video games than go outside to play to stay away from all the dirty things in the world and all the things our parents warn us about. One thing this hinders is for kids to grow the ability to make new friendships with those around them and to go outside and get familiar with their surroundings. I think parents play a big part in this when children are young. If the parents promote activities outside early on, the children will follow this way of life forever until they have their own children.
Resources:
Martinko, Katherine. "Kids Don't Spend Enough Time in Nature, Study Shows." TreeHugger. N.p., 12 Feb. 2016. Web. 23 Apr. 2017.
"The Nature Conservancy." Kids These Days. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Apr. 2017.
Riley, Naomi Schaefer. "Kids Aren't Spending Enough Time Just Going outside." New York Post. N.p., 01 Nov. 2015. Web. 23 Apr. 2017.
"Neomaterialism – Evolutionary, Functionalist, Ecological, Marxist." Making Anthropology Public.N.p., 20 Jan. 2012. Web. 23 Apr. 2017.
"Is Technology Ruining Our Kids?" Monitor on Psychology. American Psychological Association, n.d. Web. 23 Apr. 2017
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