Obese children

[venator]

Some schools are back today, and I see the kids walking through the village clutching crisp bags and chocolate. At least they have to walk to reach the toffee shop!

The message that they are letting themselves in for serious health damage doesn't seem to be getting through

Can anything really be done for them?

[pdust]

mash with lumps beats that frogspawn stuff any day ....

[horseshoes]

Once we were through the school gate we weren't allowed out. I don't remember ever having money at school. You took your dinner money on a Monday morning and that was it! We were allowed to take a biscuit for break time, but leaving school premises was a no-goer. I'm talking about my old Grammar School 1964 - 1970. When we were little, playing indoors was only done in seriously bad weather or when one was poorly.

[venator]

BOO certainly has got it right!

It's not genetic - we had the same genetic makeup 50 years ago.

We used to have kids running round, getting exercise and not having access to the same range of unhealthy foods. Building up resistance too, so less asthma and allergies.

These days, as BOO says, kids aren't doing this - they sit in front of TV, computers or game stations. They're exposed to slick advertising of unhealthy foods.

Not like us ABers, sitting in front of our keyboards - anyone eating? <]:-))

[nannybooby]

Most schools have lunch box police and you cant send a child to school with white bread, chocolate , crisps ,sweets and the list goes on and on. How old were the children you saw ?

[cazzz1975]

if kids were to go out and play in our street there would be uproar, a lot of the residents dont like children playing outside.

[B00]

Seriously Cazzz? What a bunch of miserable buggers they must be!

[cazzz1975]

yes, I dont think its isolated either, there seems to be a general intolerance to children and the noise they may make.

[B00]

That's a real shame. A lot of my childhood memories are of playing outside causing havoc!

Mini Boo plays out in the summer and decent weather on the back street with 2 or 3 other neighbour's kids, and we all take turns watching out for them, the parents I mean, the kids love it, and I still firmly believe it's what "being a kid" is all about.

[cazzz1975]

I have to agree, I have a lot of memories of mainly getting up to no good but having a great time from dawn till dusk

I feel sorry for kids of today, I think they are weighed down with responsibilities and heavily smothered in cotton wool.

[ummmm]

I make my kids walk to school. It's about 2.5 miles away...how mean am I? I didn't even have to walk to school at their age.

My eldest son is big into football so he gets all the exercise he needs. He loves his xbox though but he's only allowed to play it in my room. Youngest son is a book worm...we lose him for days at a time when he gets a new delivery of books.

They are both big foodies as well. Youngest would much rather have a home cooked dinner over a MacDonalds.