Public park is the heart of a residential area. Children play, elders go for a walk and even ladies do yoga and other exercises there. But unfortunately due to the novel virus Covid-19 these places are less brimming with children and people but there are few who are not sensing the need of the hour and breaking the rules of lockdown . Write a letter to the Editor of local daily for creating awareness among the masses regarding this issue.
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Answer:
Mark me as brainliest please
Explanation:
Mommy, the police are coming!” my nine-year-old calls to me from her scooter. We’re on the lakefront path near our home in Toronto and she’s anxious after seeing by-law enforcement officers patrolling the park.
We’ve also heard about the father in Oakville who was fined for rollerblading in an empty parking lot with his three children.
Many guidelines for outdoor activity in the pandemic don’t seem to consider children’s need and right to play. The City of Toronto’s guidelines on physical distancing speak of limiting trips outdoors.
Toronto has said in its COVID-19 changes to city services that “people can walk/run/bike” on the various routes through a park but there’s no mention of play.
So how can parents support a child’s need and right to play, when they don’t have a backyard or anywhere else to escape?
In my doctoral work at the University of Toronto, I study children’s outdoor play. I’m particularly interested in how adults support outdoor play to ensure children have access to high-quality play opportunities. I’ve learned that all adults, from public health officials to police officers to parents and neighbours, need to understand the importance of outdoor play to healthy child development in order to support it.
Access to play in a pandemic
While parents strongly influence whether their children go out to play, access to spaces and places to play matters. Some families have private backyards or cottages and some live in houses with wide boulevards and fewer cars, but many do not.
Although the key public health imperative in this crisis is to stay apart from others, official guidelines encourage us to stay home. The closing of all national parks, many provincial parks and conservation areas has reduced public access to green spaces. In Toronto, where we live, even High Park is currently closed as budding cherry blossoms tend to attract crowds.
When municipal playground equipment is also closed, children’s play naturally increases in other community spaces, including neighbourhood streets.
In our small townhouse complex, children and families play in the laneway and culs-de-sac. We have to be mindful of cars for safety. While many of our neighbours support children’s play, some complain it’s a noisy nuisance and do not welcome children or our basketball net in our community space.
Even under normal circumstances, all of these challenges of finding spaces to play are multiplied when high-rise apartment buildings and population-dense neighbourhoods suffer from a lack of urban planning for children’s play.
In a pandemic, when playgrounds and parks are closed, how on Earth are parents with varied access to the outdoors supposed to manage when there is nowhere for them to take their children to play outside?