The present generation of parents has a duty to raise their children into healthy and responsible members of society because they will take on productive roles and shoulder the burden of supporting a great number of elderly in the future.
The more complicated and fast-paced our environment becomes, the more important it is for young people to grow up healthy and upright in order to sustain society. The reality is too often quite to the contrary, however. The environment is increasingly deteriorating, and our children are becoming less resistant to exposure to the worsening environmental conditions. Compared with those in the past, our children and young adults are heavier and taller, but their eyesight and physical strength are significantly weaker, as evidenced by many research findings. The living environment has hardly changed over the last two or three decades ago and is largely to blame for this poor state of our children’s health.

1) Space getting cramped for growing children
Although kids grow 30 cm taller (from 120 cm to 150 cm) and 20 kg heavier (from 23kg to 43kg) during their six years of their elementary school, most furniture is not designed to meet all their needs.

2) Children’s space overtaken by their growing number of belongings
The number of personal computers (PCs) has rapidly increased from only 680 thousand units nationwide in 1990 to approximately 20 million in 2003, with seven out of ten households now boasting a PC (See the 2003 Informatization Survey). Unlike their parents, who could get new clothes only on festive holidays, the rooms of today’s young people are crammed with computers, sporting goods, books, clothes, and CDs, and the situation is becoming worse by the day.

3) Uniform space causes children to lose their individuality.
Special care and close attention should be given to the needs of children to create their own personal spaces and be themselves. However, the current environment makes it impossible to let them organize their rooms, preventing the cultivation of individual creativity and the development of individuality.