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  • Why can't our kids play outside anymore?
    10:04am Monday 14th April 2008
    One of the greatest things I remember about being a kid was the buckets of free time I used to have. Before the crippiling endurance test of GCSEs kicked in, my lengthy long weekends were spent anywhere but inside. Instead my parents would hurl me outside to face the world and all its wonders of scrapes and scratches, penny sweets and creepy crawlies. In fact I clearly remember my father repeating the same phrase every Sunday when I droned boredom, 'oh amy, go and play with the cars'. And this is how I toughened up as a kid.

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