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Partially? Try solely if you're talking about small children. If you keep carrots in the house, your kids will eat them. If you keep only twinkies in the house, don't be surprised when your kids are obese.
He's one of those smug pricks on TLC that reads a couple articles, the newspaper, and thinks that he is right and nobody else is. Like he's some authority on everything. Makes you wanna slap him silly.Sci-Fi said:He blamed the internet and video games and didn't blame the parents? What kind of idiot is this guy? It's up to the parents to regulate their kids internet and video game use and make sure they keep active. If you let your kids spend all day sitting in front of a screen and not get any exercise don't surprised if they end up becoming overweight or have other problems, especially if you are going to feed them chips and pop.
Cavey said:I'd say that parents are almost entirely responsible for childhood obesity. Like 9006 said, it's hard to control what they eat once they reach their teenage years, but hopefully, if they've been set a good example from a young age, they will follow a healthy lifestyle.
LoneKiller said:I think that the school system is responsible as well to some extent. They could do a little more in the Phys.ed department as well. When I was in Jr.High one of the things we had to do was square dancing. Square dancing? C'mon. "Circle right with an allemande left, and bow to your partner." does not a truly physical exercise make.
Take some of the money they use to furnish the teacher's lounge and cafeteria food which sucks ass anyway, and request additional funds and have a martial arts course at the schools. This will make a big change in bullying. It will instill confidence, respect, and you don't have to worry about walking down the street at night.
But then again. It's hard enough to get kids to go to school these days, let alone participating in self-discipline classes.
I know right? Not just your country. Many are just as bad. Canada isn't much better in this respect. This world is going straight to Hell.9006 said:LoneKiller said:I think that the school system is responsible as well to some extent. They could do a little more in the Phys.ed department as well. When I was in Jr.High one of the things we had to do was square dancing. Square dancing? C'mon. "Circle right with an allemande left, and bow to your partner." does not a truly physical exercise make.
Take some of the money they use to furnish the teacher's lounge and cafeteria food which sucks ass anyway, and request additional funds and have a martial arts course at the schools. This will make a big change in bullying. It will instill confidence, respect, and you don't have to worry about walking down the street at night.
But then again. It's hard enough to get kids to go to school these days, let alone participating in self-discipline classes.
Well I don't know about where you are, but over here school dinners is something the government keep banging on about. They announced that school dinners should be only healthy, less salt, less fat, more veg etc etc... and I remember seeing most parents where complaining about their children where coming home from school "hungry", and later I saw on the news parents feeding them crisps, burgers and soft drinks through the school fences at dinner time!
How stupid can this country be?
9006 said:How stupid can this country be?
Man. I wouldn't last through the basic training.Locke said:I got into some trouble. Mostly a couple of pointless fights in high school. I ditched 4th period JROTC for a month straight before we anyone finally noticed. For a federally funded armed forces class, they really sucked at roll call. On the bright side, I learned military life wasn't for me.
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