Melissa Chan-Green
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 30 Aug
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And I'm not talking here about children who are neurodivergent and would have
Those kinds of sensory challenges anyway.
But we're talking about a wide group of children who just haven't had that experience.
Yeah, and there's a little bit there of, because we've spoken on previous podcasts with Constable Brian Ward and with Jo Robertson around stranger danger and actually that term is not really liked in some sense because there's...
just as much risk to children online or unfortunately within
the community that they know, people that they know.
But what you're also saying is there's all these other environmental factors.
And so are you saying, let's think about what was great from back in the day and we can't go back and have it just how it was, but let's take what was great and use it with what we've got now.
I actually went to the Hundavasa Museum in Whangarei a little while ago with my kids.
And I really liked reading about how, why the floors were all uneven and the stairs even, and everything was uneven.
And he talked about needing to feel that kind of unevenness.
on your feet and why that's so important in terms of understanding where your body is in relation to space and just giving yourself that sensory input.
And that's kind of what you're saying with the playgrounds.
Because their bodies probably wouldn't have developed the balance and the muscle coordination to handle that.
So it's not like a fair thing.
It was probably we understand our bodies may not be quite equipped for this.
And we are actually teaching these movement skills in school because a lot of people talk about how important they are for other aspects of learning.
But does it seem crazy to you that we could just be developing those movement skills by just playing outside, giving adequate play outside anyway?
Isn't it crazy, and I hope this doesn't sound too sensationalist, but I think it's pretty fair to say that...
AI and digital technology is native to these children, and yet you're here saying what we have to teach them is how to play in mud.
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