DDR [Dance Dance Revolution] helps state's [WV] youth exercise in school

The Daily Athenaeum ^ | 02-05-2007 | Heather Bonecutter

[najida]

Heck,
it can be square dancing for all I care. I just know that not every child is good at sports, or even likes them. Ever.

However, dancing was my passion. It took getting out of the house to pursue it, but it's the only way I exercise now. So I can see it working for kids.

[NoLibZone]

My wife’s installing a coin operated DDR over my grave to help defray costs of my burial.

And pay off the house…

Put the kids through school…

new car…

boat.

[zendari]

Pathetic, but if it gets the fatties working up a sweat I'll take it.

Lazy kids don't run around the track. They walk around or sit down.

[zendari]

Dodgeball was the greatest thing ever to happen in middle school.

You pick a kid you don't like and you smash him in the face. Too bad the whiny liberals complained about their kids getting picked on.

[kickme]

Yeah, I say anything that helps get kids out of "virtual reality" and in reality is cool. Dance is an art, and the physical activity can be extreme. My sport was basketball.....my daughter chose dance (ballet, jazz, modern) and I think she is more fit than I was...............(but I can still kick her fanny.....right Shorty?)

[MitchellC]

I've seen it and I can't figure out what's "dance" about it. It's basically playing Simon with your feet.

[Kimmers]

As long as kids are out there moving and having fun I do not think it matters what form the exercise is in. Dance combines athletic ability, flexibility and art, so beautiful.

My eldest son swam and his football player friends would give him a hard time about swimming. That stopped when they were swimming in gym and the football players cold not make it a half a lap and my son continued swimming lap after lap.

[najida]

'sright,
one day that kid who you smashed in the face is your boss, and he remembers.

In my case, she's now mean, looks 20 years older than her age and her daughter is taking classes from me.

Sometimes revenge is just living happier than the jerks.

[zendari]

Perhaps.

Kids should enjoy their childhood, and if that means a bit of rough-housing, so be it.

[najida]

Exactly,
both kids should enjoy their childhood,
not at the expense of one being brutalized by the cruel, crazy kid.

That ain't rough housing, that's bad parenting walking.

[July 4th]

Once you're good at it, you can make it look like you're actually dancing. But right when you start, yeah, it's like playing Simon with your feet. Check out this guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hz8gQlkiFA

[zendari]

Getting hit by a dodgeball is not being "brutalized".

[najida]

You're the one who started it by talking about smashing another kid in the face.

What is that? It's wrong, and if the kid is small framed enough, and the ball thrown with enough force, noses get broken.

So I stand by brutalized.