Sunday, December 20, 2009

School's Out -- But Where Will Your Kids Play?

National Non-profit KaBOOM! Delivers New Study on National Play Deficit.

(Vocus/PRWEB ) June 19, 2009 -- Summer is here, and soon, accouchement above the country will be sprinting out the academy doors. But now that they're out, area will they go? In a abstraction commissioned by KaBOOM! and conducted by Harris Interactive® of 1,677 parents with accouchement amid the ages of 2-12, 59% of parents address that their accouchement don't accept acceptance to a association playground.

In the everyman assets bracket, that amount goes up to 69%. KaBOOM!, the civic non-profit committed to bringing play aback into the lives of children, commissioned the abstraction to acquisition out what parents anticipate about play, and how abundant time their accouchement play alfresco every day.

In a accent endure week, President Obama himself sited the accent of playgrounds in allowance our accouchement get into convalescent habits, and KaBOOM! has spent the endure 14 years architecture added than 1,600 playgrounds in low-income communities and advancement the could cause of play in bags more. This abstraction shows that while the bulletin is accepting out about the accent of play in a child's life, accouchement still don't accept abundant time and amplitude to play every day.

In agreement of importance, 96% of parents said that arena alfresco was analytical to accumulate kids physically fit, but alone 17% anticipation accouchement played abundant outside. Parents address that their kids absorb beneath than an hour per day affianced in baggy play outdoors, on boilerplate and 92% of parents say that accouchement today absorb beneath time arena alfresco than they did if they were growing up.

To advice fix the problem, parents aswell say they're accommodating to do their fair allotment of the plan to accomplish abiding their kids accept a abode to play. More than bisected said they'd be accommodating to advice body new playgrounds, fundraise for equipment, and animate schools to accessible their playgrounds during non-school hours.

KaBOOM! empowers parents to accomplish these goals, and has abounding its website, kaboom.org, with online accoutrement to accord parents step-by-step advice to body and advance their bounded playgrounds, plan with others in their community, and apprentice what communities above the nation are accomplishing to access the aggregate of play in their kids' lives.

This analysis was conducted online aural the United States by Harris Interactive on account of KaBOOM amid March 31 and April 7, 2009, a allotment of 1,677 respondents who were called from a allotment of parents with accouchement amid the ages of 2-12 who accept agreed to participate in Harris Interactive surveys.. No estimates of abstract sampling absurdity can be calculated; a abounding alignment is available.

Contact:
Alison Risso
Director, Communications
KaBOOM!
202.464.6186
arisso @ kaboom.org

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