Less screen time means more time to hike
MELVILLE – Instead of spending another weekend morning in front of the TV screen consider taking a hike at your local heritage site.
Jenny Grice, a volunteer at the Melville Koppies, said there have been numerous stories that write of the detrimental effects of too many hours watching electronic screens for both you and your kids.
“You’re tearing your hair out over what to do. Parents are finding that a wander around Melville Koppies on a Sunday morning is the perfect solution,” she shared.
Grice said a couple with eight children – two of their own and six cousins ranging in age from about four years to early teens – were recent visitors. “The kids set off, a little reticent, but armed with a printed page of treasures to look out for or listen out for and returned all smiles, with almost all of the seven treasures ticked off – they’d heard the go-away bird but not seen it.”
She continued to say that another group, grandparents, parents and grandson headed off with the young crawler unhappy at being confined to his backpack. However, once they reached the lecture hut, the crawler came into his own, heading off on the sand track, resting every now and again on his bottom to pull and chew a bit of grass, grab rough grains of sand in his hands and feel their roughness before putting everything in his mouth.
“His grin exposing his bottom two teeth showed his delight,” she concluded.
