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(MUSIC)
(MAN) Have we forgotten that the best part of being a kid is being outside?
The times we pitched a tent by the water and cooked on a fire with Mum and Dad...
It just doesn't get better than this.
Have we forgotten that the best play equipment in the world is a tree?
Remember how good it felt when Mum and Dad trusted us
to explore the neighbourhood on our bikes with our mates?
Have we forgotten that the best things in life aren't things?
Remember how fun it was to just run wild, inventing our own games
and loving the fact that Mum and Dad just let us play?
(CHILDREN LAUGH & SQUEAL)
(WOMAN) Unstructured play outdoors
is as important to children as food and sleep.
It's the bedrock of the best bits of childhood -
fantasy, activity and freedom,
a place apart from the adult world,
the times we learned the most
and the memories we hold dearest.