My mother had a health club she sent us kids to. It was just outside our front door.
"You kids! Get out from underfoot. Go outside and play!"
We did. None of us were overweight. We were all healthy, lean, and active.
In the Summer, my mom didn't want to see us, except for lunch and at suppertime. If we showed up any other time, she'd give us a glass of lemonade and kick us back out of the house. Great mom!
Your mom sounds exactly like my mom. I wonder why you and I are so different? :)
Now a days, moms are too paranoid to let their children play outside. Too dangerous. That's how they wind up dissappearing, they say.
But with respect to this article, marketeers will always find new ways to collect dollars from other people's disposable incomes.
Hah! My mom would make us do housework and then kick us out.
"In the Summer, my mom didn't want to see us, except for lunch and at suppertime. If we showed up any other time, she'd give us a glass of lemonade and kick us back out of the house. Great mom!"
Heck, your mom was a cupcake! We had our baloney on white bread with mayo sandwiches handed to us to eat under the tree out back, and I learned early on if I went into the house too many times to get a drink mom would probably make me stay inside.Something about the screen door slamming and letting in too many flies. So we drank out of the garden hose. Ah, those were the days...