In an age when most kids live in a virtual reality, the joys of playing outside in the open are all but forgotten. Sadly, we see more and more children cooped up in their rooms, playing this video game or watching that TV show.
In an attempt to take children outdoors, an ad posted on YouTube celebrates the joy of life and togetherness. Watch it, we guarantee you will smile.
The video shows a kid playing his video game and his mother taking it away every time. This goes on till the child shuts his mother's laptop down, while his father, busy using two phones, reacts in shock. Practice what you preach, says the kid's expression.
Angry, the kid steps outside the house and decides to pot a plant. The mother joins him and thus begins a contest on whose plant will sprout a tomato first.
Video games forgotten the kid has only one win on his mind - the tomato race.
In the end, after days of watering, nurturing and sometimes plain staring at it to will it to grow, one plant produces a beautiful little red tomato. But whose is it? Who wins? All we're willing to say is that there's a wonderful twist in the tale.
Take a look at the video and then put aside your (and others) phone, laptop, tablet, video games, etc and step outside.