24/01/2026
"The Disappearance of Movement and Real-World Play
One of the quiet casualties of this cultural shift has been movement itself. Children play outside less; they roam less; they engage with rough-and-tumble play far less than previous generations. In many urban environments spontaneous outdoor play has become tightly controlled, structured, or discouraged altogether – Play England revealed that most urban children spend less than 20 minutes a day outdoors, and have 90% less space to roam than they did only 30 years ago. Where the physical world once offered endless invitations to experiment..."
It’s important to understand that the deficiencies every PE teacher now sees in their young students is not the fault of the children themselves: it’s the fault of the adults who took a…
