Moll and colleagues found that kids are mentally refreshed by the same sorts of things as adults. The researchers share that via a literature review of studies related to people from 0 – 19 years old they determined that “Results show that exposure to nature has significant restorative effects. . . . The main objective of this systematic review was to evaluate and synthesize the extant evidence about the effects of exposure to nature on restoring cognitive, emotional, social and behavioural resources for children and adolescents. Overall, our results reflect that nature exposure is restorative for this population group.”
Adrian Moll, Silvia Collado, Henk Staats, and Jose Corraliza. 2022. “Restorative Effects of Exposure to Nature on Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review.” Journal of Environmental Psychology, vol. 84, 101884, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2022.101884