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Originally Posted by AcGold
try learning more about adolescent development and advertisements. Completely blaming the parents for what is clearly a societal issue is uninformed.
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Well you have 5 years as a parent you control 100% of what the kids sees. Don't want them exposed to advertising, don't turn on the TV. Don't want them exposed to video games don't let them use your phone or Ipad.
After that there friends will have an influence but if you insist on an hour of activity a day your kids will get an hour of physical activity a day. It might be a battle, it might be a fight, but you can make your kids do it.
Its actually easy once you have built in the habbit in your children. It is a fight and a struggle to change a learned behaviour but right now you have the whole summer to instill behaviours. Every parent if they wanted to now could go outside with their kids and do 1 hour of physical activity per day. It isn't society, it isn't video games, it is lazyness on the parents parts.
If parents aren't doing physical activity why should their kids. This one is the parents fault 100% can't blame society at all.