Spending time outdoors, playing or taking a walk in the fresh air is good for health and well-being. It is also beneficial for learning. Le Temps devotes a series of articles to this essential theme at a time when we spend more and more time indoors, in front of screens.
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Riding fast on a bike all alone on the way to school. Roaming outside until sunset. Crafting in the living room on rainy Wednesdays. Selecting a movie at the video store. Going on nighttime pajama vacations, laying in the back of the car turned into a bed. Taking endless sunbaths with skin covered in coconut-vanilla scented tanning oil. On social media, millennials revel in their transformed childhood memories. While many of them are now parents, they post videos, almost as if to measure the gap that separates them from the carefree days of their own parents.
Several things connect these childhood memories experienced at the dawn of the internet. The long hours spent in nature. The space to breathe, get bored, or explore the world on your own. The risk and excitement it provoked. Even if it portrays an idealized childhood, this nostalgia speaks of a world where going out was part of daily life from a very young age. What this generation evokes, looking back, is also a sense of freedom and adventure that it struggles to pass on to its children today.
