Actually, shopping malls are not very suitable as the main place for daily kids' outings.

It's not that you can't go at all, but treating malls as the primary activity space can lead to many problems.
Malls are environments that are over-designed, with lighting, displays, products, posters... everything is desperately trying to attract children's attention.
Especially the toy area, which is bright and noisy, with new stimuli every few steps, constantly draining the child's focus.
When children are a bit older and have their own ideas, seeing the dazzling array of food, drinks, and toys in front of them, yet unable to have everything they want,
they can easily fall into a cycle of "want—rejection—frustration—emotional outburst."
That's why we often see children lying on the ground throwing tantrums in malls. I think this is more caused by the environment.
Outdoor spaces are completely different. In nature, they can explore and observe at their own pace, in their favorite ways, and play freely.
Every time I take my child outdoors, we just climb around and play casually. Outside, parent-child conversations become much more natural, no longer the commands like "Don't touch," "No," or "Hurry up" in malls,
but children proactively share: "Mom, I'm playing with stones!" "Look, there's a bird! Airplane! Eagle."
It's just like wandering through a wheat field, and we have a lot of fun.
During this process, parents don't need to overly control or interfere with their children, which makes everything much easier.
For children, they don't need so many carefully designed "happy moments."
Eventually, people will go outdoors, sooner or later, so why not let them grow more in nature?