I read all the time about the “epidemic of obesity” among children and I’m shocked. I’ve got a 7 year old Son who doesn’t know the meaning of the words slow down, sit down, be still, etc. I have trouble keeping weight ON him. He runs it all off.
Richard and I both are overweight. We both started out as skinny kids. When I was a kid I had long thin legs, knobby knees, like I said I was skinny. (I have pics that prove it!) I also had that whole Laura Ingalls Wilder thing going on. Long hair braided into pigtails, freckles, goofy teeth. lol It was scarey.
What is it with kids nowadays?
They’ve got mp3 players, they’re online, they have video games, and for the life of me I can’t understand this one… they have freakin cell phones. *I* don’t have a cell phone. Please don’t tell me they need them for an “ermergency”. They have these things you put little round things in, they’re called coins, and then you punch the numbers and hear ringing and then usually a voice answers on the other end. You know… payphones. All of us old farts used them back when the dinosaurs roamed the earth. When I see Buffy walking around Walmart yakking at Tiffany about her latest boyfriend I wonder if Mom or Dad have any idea what these kids are doing with those cell phones. Sigh…
I know. I sound like a 100 year old woman complaining. Well dammit it’s the truth. Some of these kids have been coddled and given everything they want to the point that they will barely be able to function in a lot of ways when we dinosaurs have ambled off to the great rainforest in the sky.
How in the hell did I go from talking about fat kids to kids with cell phones?
I hear mr. bed calling my name… I’m getting goofy.