Guardian – Footage of children happily playing in rain has inspired ‘longing for simple childhoods’, says childcare manager in New Zealand
A still from the video showing children gleefully leaping down the slide into a muddy puddle in the middle of a rainstorm. Photograph: Pukekos Educare/Facebook
A video clip of New Zealand pre-school children playing in a rain storm has been viewed more than 20m times on social media, with the director of the centre saying the clip had prompted people to remember the freedom of their own “lost childhoods”.