While MC-ing the Asia Oceania Camping Congress this weekend, I saw a wonderful preview for a soon to be released movie called Project Wild Thing, by David Bond.
I won’t say much more than – watch this 2 minute trailer, and then promise to see the movie when it comes to your local cinema:
PROJECT WILD THING – official trailer.
Actually, I do need to say two things which are connected to the story of this documentary:
- Children today spend LESS than 2 hours a day in the outdoors. Compare this sobering data with the fact that maximum security prisoners are, by law, required to have a minimum of 2 hours outside every day, otherwise their incarceration is considered ‘abuse.’
- Research reveals that children under 12 years of age spend approx 900 hours in school each year, yet they spend approx 1,900 hours in front of a screen during the same period. This is crazy.
As David says in his movie, children today will likely become the first generation to live a shorter life than their parents.
This madness has to stop.
What do you think?