David Beier's The Perks Of A Play

The Perks of a Play is a very informative article that gives us readers a brief summary about a recurring problem in today’s world. This is the permission for pre-K students to experience the outdoors before “sitting at desks, drilling letter identification and counting” (Beier 2). This is through what is known as ‘Nature Preschools/Forest kindergartens’, such as Mundo Verde. Nature has been around us forever and has even been integrated into the younger schools systems up until many years ago. Only recently, have some people such as Richard Louv and Emma Huvos realized the importance of nature in a child’s daily agenda. There have many many articles like this one, but I feel as if this specific one, The Perks of a Play is much more hard-hitting than others. This is because it provides a substantial amount of relevant examples and detail. It talks about how the current school system is destroying a child’s mind and even their health. For example, Beier states “a kid who suffers from anxiety doesn’t necessarily need medication, a child who can’t pay attention doesn’t need a computer program to reshape her development, and one who struggles to keep up physically doesn’t need a targeted summer-camp experience to build his muscles” (Beier 2-3). In my opinion, I agree with this statement 100%. There is nothing like going outside for bike ride to just …show more content…
Those devices are horrible for a child’s early development due to how they don't necessarily teach much other than how to tap and type, which you would obviously learn later in school. Instead, you could learn how to climb a tree, find certain berries, and even how to interact with others in the real world. In fact, I always hear about how today’s youth are much more incapable with surviving on their own or just having proper “street-smarts.” It is like all of this technology is only infecting the youth population, instead of helping