The Playground presents itself as “an alternative to passive or open-ended digital entertainment” amid “a growing national conversation around children’s screen time habits”.<\/p>\n
Anyone using the device will still be looking at a television screen, so the benefits for children may be more a “compromise to have them get up and moving” alongside it, Nick said.<\/p>\n
The parents I spoke to said their children often played on the console for between half an hour to an hour in one session, with the games typically being used as a way to transition into another activity, or to allow some structured play.<\/p>\n
Brian said while getting a Playground meant they “compromised on increased screen time”, the games still encouraged active play “in a way typical cartoons or movies were unable to”.<\/p>\n
So did I work up a sweat in any of the games I played?<\/p>\n
In the initial starter pack, three games involved only a small amount of moving my arms.<\/p>\n
The final two, the rhythm game and a set of mini-games, did include more full body movements.<\/p>\n
The fuller Play Pass has a specific “Health & Fitness” category which includes sessions such as daily Zumba workouts, complete with an on-screen instructor shouting out movements in time to the music.<\/p>\n
It wasn’t clear if I was managing to hit every motion correctly, but it did at least get me moving a bit more, and felt more convenient than heading to a gym class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Playground presents itself as “an alternative to passive or open-ended digital entertainment” amid “a growing national conversation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-648262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}