I know they exercise alot less, and we ate junk food to some extent. However, when I was growing up most moms made sure the kids ate a healthy dinner, nowadays dinnner is often fast food, coke, etc. And having taught recently, I can assure everyone that what passes for school lunches these days is not very healthy, add to that vending machines in the schools....
Really, it's a multi faceted problem.
I just wish more parents would take it seriously.
I don't really want to support them when they can't work.
susie
You've got that all down right.
I won't totally blame the schools for all the problems because in the end it is the parents who have the ultimate voice in what is happening. Complacency on the part of parents basically allows the schools to do as they wish.
Involved parents can and do make changes. I know this because I accomplished a change just this week with a single in person conversation and a single telephone call.