2 Reasons Why Camping is Good for Your Mental Health

2 Reasons Why Camping is Good for Your Mental Health

Australia offers some of the world's most prestigious locations to go camping. Camping offers a chance to socialise, escape from work-related stress and the harms of digital technology, increase physical activity, and get some fresh air and sunshine.

Interestingly a study published in 2014 showed that preteens who spent 5 days in a nature camp without access to screen-based media or digital communication demonstrated improved emotional and social intelligence, compared to a group of controls. After 5 days, the nature camp participants restricted from screen time demonstrated significantly better recognition of nonverbal emotional and social cues than those who continued screen time. Perhaps this is justification to take the kids with you as well...

Source:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7366948/