Do You Know Where the Children Are? (Walt Frazier Photo Contest)

Posted on October 14th, 2013 

by Steiner Sports

(Instructions for the contest are on the bottom of this post.)

When I was a kid, during the summer, or on days off from school, we’d commonly leave our houses around 9 in the morning and come back around 7 at night.

And I grew up in Brooklyn, which, safe as it is, has never been mistaken for Pleasantville.

That was just how kids were: We went outside and played. With any luck, we played on vast, rolling fields, or in the woods, or at the playground – but even the street sufficed.

It’s sad to think that this is so much less common now. It seems like in some areas, it’s even rare.

What’s the issue?

Is it that our parks aren’t safe enough anymore? Nor our streets?

Is it that video games have become too “good,” chaining up  kids’ attention spans inside?

Is it that we ourselves want them to lead more structured lives, so we fill out their schedules with piano lessons and jujitsu lessons and cooking classes so they’re too exhausted to go play outside?

What’s the deal?

How do we bring our parks back to our kids?

Will there never again be kids hanging out on the corner, or, dare I say it, in the library?  

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