The couch potato kids

Read the newspaper article here

Again, I find myself having a little ‘mini-rant’.  In the news today, yet again a ‘pick on the parents’ day!

This time, how too many children who are couch potatoes “They found on average, children spent 1.9 hours per day watching TV or playing on their computer and only 36 minutes doing physical activity.“ according to the ‘survey’. Which leads to heart problems and high blood pressure!

Once there was more than three channels on TV for me I was watching TV far more often as a child… now there are hundreds if you have satellite or cable TV. If I remember rightly, I was spending double the 1.9hrs they have quoted!  And for the record, I was not an over weight child!

I can hear my mum saying now, “don’t sit so close to the TV, its bad for your eyes” did I listen? of course not. But I did need glasses at an early age, thus acquiring taunts like “specky twat” or “four eyes“!  Whether it was the TV that made my eyes bad or not, I certainly do not suffer form heart problems or high blood pressure from the ‘potato’ past time I had then.  This is all just scare mongery to get your kids outside and do some exercise! It can get boring when we are told (in so many words) how you should bring up your kids! I personally feel that if its in your genes then there is a higher risk of any illness.