Back in the old days, kids in the summertime would go out and play all day. Kids would play baseball or other games. Kids could just ride bikes and explore the neighborhood, go to friends houses, etc. without having the parents have to make a play date.
Nowadays, parents want their kids supervised at all times, and don’t let them have the freedom that previous generations of kids did to go outside and play. I know that the fear of crime, perverts, and accidents is what has driven today’s parents to want their children supervised at all times.
If the alternative is for kids to sit around, watch TV, and play video games, then that explains part of the obesity problem. They aren’t getting enough exercise.
Mothers used to know and control every bite of food their kids ate - now mothers are at work while their kids over feed themselves.
When I think of the things I did as a kid I can’t believe I lived past the age of 12. I remember having a firecracker fight with one of my buddies, we had a pack of three hundred, took them off one by one, lit them and threw them at each other.....oh that was fun day till the neighbor complained. It was good excercise too, being chased by the one with the lit firecracker.
That someone used to exist: it used to be called 'parents'.
The way to fix fat kids in public schools is to fire every teacher, bureaucrat administrator and janitor in America who can’t do 10 sit-ups and 10 push-ups.
Then hire veterans to take over.
My swim coach was a Marine veteran of Guadalcanal, and my Algebra teacher landed at Normandy.
We are wasting our children’s most precious resource - veterans.
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Just got back from visiting my brother and his three kids. They are the most paranoid people I have ever been around. My brothers wife and mother-in-law have the kids terrified of everything. They don’t want the little boy to play baseball because it is too dangerous!?! I have 3 boys who are wide open until they hit the bed, sports, dirtbikes, hunting, fishing, camping, bb guns, the whole nine yards. My youngest son told my sister in law that you’re not hurt until the bone is sticking out, she about had a cow! LOL I feel horrible for those kids, so do my parents, it’s breaking their heart.
I rarely see fat kids at the skatepark. But I see nothing but fat kids at the mall.
we now own a trampoline of our very own... my kids bounce so high on that thing, it is scary... and so much fun... great exercise... i bounce on it in the mornings to add variety to my work out... it's not easy for this adult!
We have an epidemic of anorexia and we’re complaining about youngsters being overweight.
How about just getting out of our faces and let us raise our children as we see fit.
It is due in part to the social engineers in our government forcing the development of human storage units, called smart growth housing. Tiny apartments or condos,in highly dense ‘transit hubs’ leave no room for yards, gardens and vacant lots or fields for children to play and exercise in.
Parents have no other course but to schedule their lives to take children to extracurricular activities, if they can’t do that the kids have nothing but the streets or television or video games in the government designed human storage unit.
I would leave the rifle and bike parked outside, go in, buy a Dr. Pepper, a candy bar, a pack of Lucky Strikes (free matches), a 50 round box of .22LR and proceed a couple of blocks northward where I would try to murder as many rabbits as possible with 50 rounds.
These days, almost any of that would prompt a SWAT team response.
“Safest” kid in America? Michael Moore.
We had about 25 kids in my class at public school back in the 60s and there was always just one chubby kid. It was like a requirement that every class had to have one. Now in my son’s class of 16 in a private school there are five fat kids. You should see what their mothers put in those kid’s lunches. One mother drives to school every day to deliver her son his daily Mcdonalds or Chick Fil-A fast food with dessert.