Breaking News: Kid Prefer Having Fun To Going Outside. The Daystar! IT BURNS!

Turns out kids don't like going outside much anymore. Personally speaking, I don't know about kids in New Zealand, but the kids I know in America are insanely restricted. Most kids I know can't even go outside without someone hovering over them. If their parents aren't living in fear of whatever the latest media-saturated doom is (AVIAN FLU! DARK MEN STEALING YOUR CHILDREN), then maybe they can go outside unsupervised, but they're usually locked onto whatever barren strip of grass passes for a front yard nowadays. If kids today roamed as I did when I was a kid, rolling down to the drainage ditch on my BMX to fish and catch tadpoles and otherwise engage in the activities I enjoyed, their parents would be locked away and ripped to shreds in the Court of Public Opinion. So it turns out you paint "outside" as a scary place where roaming Mad Maxian gangs wait to steal your children, then the kids don't want to go outside anymore. Imagine that.