Blooming Curious
Blooming Curious
Edwina Cottino
Ep 6 Ten Tips to Get Outside and Off Screens these Holidays
10 minutes Posted Dec 18, 2023 at 4:30 pm.
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Most adults (and many children) spend hours in front of a screen each day.  In fact, research from GWI https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2022-global-overview-report reveals that the typical internet user now spends almost 7 hours per day using the internet across all devices. It’s crazy to think that statistic equates to a person spending 40 percent of their waking life online. The GWI’s broad global survey of internet users aged 16 to 64 also reports that we are spending 2 hours and 27 minutes on social media per day.

In this episode I discuss my own findings and experience as it relates to what I believe is a correlation between tech use, decreased academic performance and an increase in anxiety and mental wellbeing.

I talk about the positive findings into spending time in nature and give you ten tips to help you reduce screen time and get outdoors these holidays.

We all need a break from our fast paced lives and hopefully these recommendations will help you click that reset button and create new healthier habits that stay with you well past the holidays.

Check out links to the article I talk about here: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/worldwide-testing-reveals-drastic-decline-in-australian-students-performance-across-maths-reading-and-science/news-story/4de1febdde5ae7d33c1ce074797af690

The benefits of spending time outdoors at https://www.apa.org/monitor/2020/04/nurtured-nature

Download my free PDF with 24 activities you can do as a family to get kids outdoors and keep them curious by clicking on this link https://resources.edslessons.com/24-fun-activities-that-instil-curiosity-in-kids

Read the full blog post to this podcast at https://edslessons.com/ten-tips-to-take-a-break-from-screens-and-get-outside/

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