Today I watched an episode of Maury and became extreamly frusterated. The topic overweight children. Who do we blame.I have put together a few suspects in my mind.
My first suspect is the parents. Often their exuse is " I would be a bad parent if I denied my child food" In my opinion this is the most ridiculas exuse in the books. Would you give your teenager weed if they wanted it? Hopefully the answer is no. So why do so many parents over feed of inproperly feed there toddlers. The 2nd suspect the advertisers. I believe it is incredibly irresponsible for the advertisers to advertise unheathy products like they do. Example McDonalds.. Don't get me wrong I see no harm in taking your child to Mcdonalds every once in a while. I do not agree with McDonald bribing children with toys and jungle gyms.Another suspects I believe is the makers of video games, rather that enjoying the outdoors many young ones are now sitting on a bean bag starring at a t.v.
It is time for some action to occur before it is to late.
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I've had this conversation with a lot of my friends that have children and I think that one of the biggest factors is that kids just don't go outside and get exercise anymore. This is one of the downsides to technological advances. Children don't want to be outside riding their bikes or playing kickball anymore, they want to sit and play videogames or watch TV. When I was a child, I was always outside playing and running around. It's such a sad thing, especially when young children don't really know any better.
ReplyDeleteI agree. A lot of it too is that kids used to run around with the neighborhood kids, and go to the park together, ride bikes, etc... while Mom or Dad got stuff done around the house. This day in age, I would never let my daughter run around the neighborhood without an adult that I knew and trusted.
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