The bubble‐wrap generation: children growing up in walled gardens

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‘Sensing with’ photography and ‘thinking with’ photographs in research into teenage girls' hanging out (2015, background): “I mentioned the concept of the ‘bubble-wrap generation’ (Malone 2007) to discuss young people’s decreased independent mobility.”
The Misdiagnosis: Rethinking “Nature-deficit Disorder” (2013, background): “Research illustrates how recent generations have less unrestrained experience in outdoor surroundings and spend more time indoors or in controlled outdoor settings (Hofferth & Sandberg, 2001; Malone, 2007).”
Walking to school: Community design and child and parent barriers (2011, background): “Some researchers have claimed that today’s children are part of a “bubble wrap” generation where children’s active travel around home is restricted by a combination of parental anxieties, time pressures, and environmental changes (Malone, 2007).”
Use of the Outdoor Classroom and Nature-Study to Support Science and Literacy Learning: A Narrative Case Study of a Third-Grade Classroom (2012, background): “Children today have limited understanding of the elements of nature learned through experience (Louv 2005; Malone 2007).”
Does the walkability of neighbourhoods affect children's independent mobility, independent of parental, socio-cultural and individual factors? (2014, background): “Moreover, few have explored IM in an Australian context (Malone 2007; Whitzman and Pike 2007).”