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No doubt your right, i don't have kids myself  but we do however have plenty of nieces and nephews, they would rather sit and play on the computer or video games all day than play out side makes me wonder where/they'll  we'll be in 10 years from now.

Well, in your day there was no television, nor computers and games. Therefore you played outside with the other kids. Anyway, the parents feed the kids too much food, the parents are to blame. They are fat too, especially in the USA.

If you don't use it, you loose it. Muscles in particular. An hour on TV, or the computer, then throw them out with a list of chores which require some physical excersize, even if it's raking leaves or washing the cars. What ever happened to playing sports?

A very talked about issue. Only parents can change this. 

Eggplant: "Thanks for the vote up!" That's my 3 YEAR OLD SON in the picture. I got into an argument on a bus recently w/a 16 year-old who called me an old man; if it escalated into a fight, I would've kicked his ***. Thanks for hurting my feelings (lol). I take it that your vote was an apology!

I'm only 56; there was t.v. in "my day" ; however, the wheel had not yet been invented!

I think its a sad reality, both parents often need to work and family time has diminished, gone are the days at the beach, the family involvment with sport, leisure time has changed and is now often taken up with catching up with chores after work,it does take a lot of effort to make time, and sometimes a lot of convincing to get kids off all the computer games,I live in a country area and its encouraging here to see kids still playing cricket and riding their bikes, lots also help after school on family farms, I didn't see much of that in the city also time poor parents are often of the belief fast food is easier, it isn't .

Ducky

Fast food is also very expensive.