{"id":6090,"date":"2026-07-08T15:45:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T15:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lacittadeibambini.eu\/im-going-outside-to-play-first-responses-from-children\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T16:18:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T16:18:55","slug":"im-going-outside-to-play-first-responses-from-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lacittadeibambini.eu\/en\/im-going-outside-to-play-first-responses-from-children\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Going Outside to Play: First Responses from Children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Following the meeting with the children from the International Network Councils, which took place on March 21st, Francesco Tonucci wrote a letter to the children, asking them directly to make a request to mayors, parents, and teachers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We asked the children to tell their parents they would be willing to give up their smartphones if allowed to go out and play with friends every day unsupervised, and that they are also ready to cut back on some of their afternoon activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also asked them to tell their teachers they would be willing to give up their smartphones if they stop assigning homework, because afternoons and weekends are the &#8216;free time&#8217; guaranteed for play by the Convention on the Rights of the Child<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After receiving the letter, several Children&#8217;s Councils worked on Tonucci&#8217;s proposal and wrote a response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read Tonucci\u2019s letter and the responses from the Children\u2019s Councils of Macerata, Malnate, Latina, and Pycania by visiting the campaign&#8217;s dedicated webpage at this <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lacittadeibambini.eu\/en\/i-go-out-to-play\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">link<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the meeting with the children from the International Network Councils, which took place on March 21st, Francesco Tonucci wrote a letter to the children,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5416,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[374,268],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-news-archive"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/lacittadeibambini.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1vignetta.jpg?fit=2132%2C2560&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9FMIQ-1Ae","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacittadeibambini.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacittadeibambini.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacittadeibambini.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacittadeibambini.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacittadeibambini.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6090"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lacittadeibambini.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6099,"href":"https:\/\/lacittadeibambini.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6090\/revisions\/6099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacittadeibambini.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacittadeibambini.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacittadeibambini.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacittadeibambini.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}