Fifty schools commit to keep Canberra kids active

Aragornerama said :

magiccar9 said :

PARENTS PARENTS PARENTS!!

When I was growing up, video game or computer use was limited to 1 hour per day on weekends. Don’t even consider it on school days.
Nowadays parents are too lazy/busy/uninterested in providing anything other than a screen to keep their kids entertained. Couple that with the junky processed rubbish they jam down kids throats because mummy and daddy are too busy to cook a proper meal.

Perhaps when parents start taking care of their children, and showing some true parenting skills will our (lets not sugar coat it) fat kids ever start to loose weight.

It shouldn’t be up to a school to take care of children’s health. That’s a parents job – plain and simple. Schools are there to teach our children the skills they need for future life. Sure you could argue this includes health lessons etc, but we’re now at the point where our teachers are being given the extra role of raising the kids – a job that has slowly crept out of the hands of parents.

Take me back to the day where kids would walk to school, or the bus stop, or heaven forbid if you lived out of your local area mum or dad would drive you.

Parents these days need to take a lot more responsibility for their children and start showing an actual interest in their offspring.

Absolutely. If kids are fat you can chalk it up to lazy parenting. It seriously isn’t hard to buy sugar-free cereal for breakfast, cook something healthy for dinner and whip up a vegemite sandwich for lunch (ideally something with more fruit/veg, but if there’s no time vegemite on whole-grain bread won’t make anyone fat). If people can’t be bothered it’s irresponsible for them to have kids.

While we’re on that topic, everyone should also get their kids to read for at least half an hour a day and spend some time playing outside. Parenting ain’t rocket science, but a heckuva lotta people seem to manage to mess it up.

magiccar9 said :

PARENTS PARENTS PARENTS!!

When I was growing up, video game or computer use was limited to 1 hour per day on weekends. Don’t even consider it on school days.
Nowadays parents are too lazy/busy/uninterested in providing anything other than a screen to keep their kids entertained. Couple that with the junky processed rubbish they jam down kids throats because mummy and daddy are too busy to cook a proper meal.

Perhaps when parents start taking care of their children, and showing some true parenting skills will our (lets not sugar coat it) fat kids ever start to loose weight.

It shouldn’t be up to a school to take care of children’s health. That’s a parents job – plain and simple. Schools are there to teach our children the skills they need for future life. Sure you could argue this includes health lessons etc, but we’re now at the point where our teachers are being given the extra role of raising the kids – a job that has slowly crept out of the hands of parents.

Take me back to the day where kids would walk to school, or the bus stop, or heaven forbid if you lived out of your local area mum or dad would drive you.

Parents these days need to take a lot more responsibility for their children and start showing an actual interest in their offspring.

Absolutely. If kids are fat you can chalk it up to lazy parenting. It seriously isn’t hard to buy sugar-free cereal for breakfast, cook something healthy for dinner and whip up a vegemite sandwich for lunch (ideally something with more fruit/veg, but if there’s no time vegemite on whole-grain bread won’t make anyone fat). If people can’t be bothered it’s irresponsible for them to have kids.

PARENTS PARENTS PARENTS!!

When I was growing up, video game or computer use was limited to 1 hour per day on weekends. Don’t even consider it on school days.
Nowadays parents are too lazy/busy/uninterested in providing anything other than a screen to keep their kids entertained. Couple that with the junky processed rubbish they jam down kids throats because mummy and daddy are too busy to cook a proper meal.

Perhaps when parents start taking care of their children, and showing some true parenting skills will our (lets not sugar coat it) fat kids ever start to loose weight.

It shouldn’t be up to a school to take care of children’s health. That’s a parents job – plain and simple. Schools are there to teach our children the skills they need for future life. Sure you could argue this includes health lessons etc, but we’re now at the point where our teachers are being given the extra role of raising the kids – a job that has slowly crept out of the hands of parents.

Take me back to the day where kids would walk to school, or the bus stop, or heaven forbid if you lived out of your local area mum or dad would drive you.

Parents these days need to take a lot more responsibility for their children and start showing an actual interest in their offspring.

How many more children would walk or ride to school if they had footpaths to ride or walk on?

Guess children need to get weekday exercise as the fence the MInisters government are erecting around the play equipment will keep the kiddies from playing near the school outside business hours.

Kids today get about half as much time to play at recess and lunch and kids did 10 years ago.

Obesity isn’t a Boolean true false either. How many kids are seriously overweight, which gender which schools?