Comments on: Tell me again why kids are getting fat?

By: No play please, we’re American :: Treadly and Me

No play please, we’re American :: Treadly and Me — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:12:24 +0000

[...] Tell me again why kids are getting fat? [...]

By: PsychoPhil - Drink More Beer

PsychoPhil - Drink More Beer — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:15:24 +0000

[...] skyrocketing rates of childhood obesity and diabetes. Ok, skyrocketing rates. Has anybody bothered to really ask why? I seem to remember plenty of snack and soda machines when I was in grade school. Not to mention pizza, ice cream and even fried chicken in the lunch lines. Yet NOW we suddenly have skyrocketing rates of obesity and diabetes? Sorry, try again. Something else is going on. Someting like actual playing and running no longer being allowed on playgrounds. Something like phys ed classes and recess being cut more and more every year. Something like our kids being drugged into submission instead of being allowed to release their natural energy. [...]

By: psychophil

psychophil — Fri, 12 May 2006 00:28:07 +0000

Nope, the plastic slides don’t get any near as hot… they also don’t slide anywhere near as fast either. They suck.

Yeah… bike jumps. I used to put on a Baltimore Colts football helmet and jump my Mongoose BMX bike over every damn thing I could find playing Evil Knievel. I don’t think I ever made it. See? A helmet. I actually had some sense (though I didn’t know it at the time, it wasn’t a real football helmet).

By: Rob Carlson

Rob Carlson — Thu, 11 May 2006 20:25:11 +0000

I bet plastic slides don’t get hot enough to melt the skin off your legs on a summer day either.

As a kid, I played in a 50 foot wide, 10 foot deep curved hole in the ground (formerly the foundation of an old firehouse) we called “the pit.” If you got a good running start from the far end, you could get about 6 feet of air on your bike without even trying.

It’s a wonder I’ve still got my junk intact after a few of those landings.

By: jaboobie

jaboobie — Thu, 11 May 2006 13:26:30 +0000

Oh man, rock fights and roman candle tag, good times. I remember getting smashed IN THE EYE during a rock fight. But I didn’t run home or cry because that was the rule, first one to quit or cry loses.

We even played tag with BLOWDARTS. The great thing about that was there was no cheating, you knew when you hit somebody because it’s hard to keep quiet when you get a blowdart in the ass.

Games like that will teach you more important stuff than anything you can learn in a classroom.

The lesson “Area of Circle = Pie*Radius Squared” is less practical than “Always turn your head when someone shoots a roman candle at you.”

By: Treadly and Me

Treadly and Me — Thu, 11 May 2006 03:29:09 +0000

No play please, we’re American.

In the USA, some school districts are banning playground equipment, games of tag, and even running in the playground. What the …?…