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therewith. /National Wildlife Federation) - Many children are
too busy tweeting to go outside and hear a real tweet. Kids
today spend an average of seven hours per day using electronic
media but only four to seven minutes outside in unstructured
outdoor play time. "The importance of media in today's world is
indisputable, but a sky's-the-limit approach to technology can
have a powerful downside for kids if it's not tempered with
something more down to earth," said Lindsay Legendre, manager of
the National Wildlife Federation's Be Out There movement -- an
effort to get more children outdoors more often. Research shows
that spending time outdoors makes kids grow lean and strong,
enhances their imaginations and gives them time to let off steam
and just be kids. The Kaiser Family Foundation says children who
spend too much time with t