With a number of technologies getting the attention lately, there are many ways that today’s fast paced and competitive lifestyle is proving detrimental to our children. Without the fundamentals of a healthy childhood, today’s kids find themselves fighting an uphill battle that is more real and permanent than the roads our parents and grandparents claimed to have walked on their way to school. Consider some of these experiences that today’s children are lacking when it comes to the kind of environments they are provided:

• Parents who are emotionally available.
• Limits that are clearly defined.
• Responsibilities.
• Adequate sleep and balanced nutrition.
• Time outdoors and opportunities for moving in general.
• Boredom spaces including opportunities for unstructured games, creative play, and social interaction.

Instead, in recent years, children have been filled with far less effective parenting methods. Consider some of the thin