Childhood Obesity
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Just got to love government entities trying to make parents feel more like a failure and children with medical problems more neurotic. Way to send more kids into anorexia and bulimia....
culloden
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Yours isn't?
Seriously, this is yet another un-needed government intrusion. Used to be we told the government what to do. That's changed, and that's a problem.
Netzach
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You assume a lot.
A lot of parents don't know or care where their children are, let alone what they weigh and if it's bad, who their friends are, or how to make pasta on a stove. I know it's depressing to always have to assume worse when you're thinking about tailoring things to the public, but the levels of dysfunction that have to be addressed are amazing.
I'm not in favor of this because I think it's pointless to weigh kids and then feed them chips and fishsticks and quarter water and call it food. Which the school is doing.
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We all had bad eating habits as kids but our activity level was so high we burned it off There were only a couple of heavy kids to a class. My mother would let me eat ice cream for breakfast. Food then was more often fried than not. Still I weighed 135 at 18.
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God Almighty, that's horrible.
I mean, when I was in high school, I thought PE class was humiliating enough, and I was in shape. I was just one of those tall, muscled, built-like-a-brick-shithouse types (then) in a class full of tiny, wiry types. I could never run the mile in the amount of time allotted, but then they couldn't do sprints like I could, either.
I think between the horrid school lunches and the way they try to get kids to "exercise," which is also terrible, maybe the schools ought to look at themselves and say, "Hey, maybe we're doing it wrong!"
Like that's going to happen.
I mean, when I was in high school, I thought PE class was humiliating enough, and I was in shape. I was just one of those tall, muscled, built-like-a-brick-shithouse types (then) in a class full of tiny, wiry types. I could never run the mile in the amount of time allotted, but then they couldn't do sprints like I could, either.
I think between the horrid school lunches and the way they try to get kids to "exercise," which is also terrible, maybe the schools ought to look at themselves and say, "Hey, maybe we're doing it wrong!"
Like that's going to happen.
ownedsubgal
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how about instead of humiliating and psychologically scarring kids by weighing them, the schools bring back P.E. instead. P.E. programs are going the way of the dinosaur...Daddy's son has never heard of phys ed, and he's attended both private and public schools.
back when i was a little chap, i hated P.E. with a passion, but at least it forced you to move your butt and be active. does anyone else remember the Presidential Physical Fitness Test every year? do they even still do that anymore?
back when i was a little chap, i hated P.E. with a passion, but at least it forced you to move your butt and be active. does anyone else remember the Presidential Physical Fitness Test every year? do they even still do that anymore?
ownedsubgal
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my fave event in the Pres. Physical Fitness Test, i always smoked everyone:
http://www.presidentschallenge.org/educators/program_details/physical_fitness/events_vsit.aspx
http://www.presidentschallenge.org/educators/program_details/physical_fitness/events_vsit.aspx
Netzach
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My brain just broke.
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Ooh, I rocked at that one, too. And the shuttle run! Everything else was a great big FAIL, LOL.
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What kills me about things like this is that they have these kids. They know these kids are overweight. But then, instead of, say, using gym to give them actual workouts (biking, lifting weights, stairmaster, stretching) they make them play basketball, or do track and field things.
That
doesn't
help.
In fact, its downright pointless anyhow. Gym shouldn't be about playing games. It should be about learning how to take care of your body and stay fit.
In practice, most of the time gym is more about putting the weaker kids down.
That
doesn't
help.
In fact, its downright pointless anyhow. Gym shouldn't be about playing games. It should be about learning how to take care of your body and stay fit.
In practice, most of the time gym is more about putting the weaker kids down.
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Daddy2mylilgirl
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Have you ever worked out? Did you think it was fun? Do you think a kid will think its fun?
They have kids play games as a way to get them to exercise and still have fun.
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It's still not fun. It's only fun if you get to play games you actually like as opposed to mindless games of kickball or something equally dull for months on end. Does anybody even LIKE kickball? (Hell, it requires the same number of people and facilities as softball; let's play that instead.) Or dodgeball, OMG. A stupider game I can't possibly imagine.
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completely.
I'm also not suggesting that its fun.
I didn't particularly like many of my classes.
If they can make it useful AND fun, great, but right now its useless and for many kids not fun at all.
If its going to be miserable, at least make it worthwhile.
Gym <> recess
ownedsubgal
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actually i used to love kickball, it was one of the very few sports we were forced to play in school that i didn't dread. why? because kicking, unlike softball/basketball/tennis/football/etc. does not require hand-eye coordination, nor balance, two things which i very much lack. i can kick a ball, kick it hard, and remain standing upright while doing it as opposed to falling on my bum. hence, i loved kickball. it is a sport built for geeks, lol.
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I'm probably just biased because I blew my left knee up playing kickball. I had problems with that thing off and on for years and years.
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Daddy2mylilgirl
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They're never going to make EVERY kid happy. But having the kids do 30 minutes on a stair master and they will be begging to play kickball.
Plus it all depends on where you grow up and if your school has the funding/programs in place to make PE fun. When I was in PE we played football, softball, basketball, dodgeball, kickball, indoor floor hockey, went to the weight room, and more.
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Dodgeball was great. Plastering a ball into the face of a kid and not getting in trouble. Kill or be killed. We're becoming too soft when schools outlaw it.
Yeah working out in theory would be good but most of the kids would hate it. Especially the ones who really need it.
Yeah working out in theory would be good but most of the kids would hate it. Especially the ones who really need it.
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why is everyone concerned about whether the kids are happy?
its
school
its
school
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You'd have to hire Netzach and put her in a nun's outfit and be the sadist PE teacher. I don't have a problem with that.
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