Better health

By RamblinLonghorn

June 21, 2007 6:09 PM | Link to this

As long as it’s not the parents fault, right?

Luddites

By Jo

June 22, 2007 8:56 AM | Link to this

We have more obese kids today than we have ever had. Gee, I wonder if sittting on their butts for hours at a time drinking soda and eating junk food and playing video games could be the cause? Parents should limit a kids time in front of a computer and make them, yes make them get some excercise and get outside. Have them do yard work, walk the dogs, even walk the neighbors dogs, whatever it takes. It’s a form of reckless child endangerment to allow your kids to sit all day and play video games and continue to gain weight and risk having health problems. Even if weight is not the issue for the kid, the child needs other ativities and other forms of socialization than just sitting idle in front of a game screen. Not to mention the violence in some of the games some parents seem to be perfectly all right with. Parents, get a clue.

By Adam

June 22, 2007 8:56 AM | Link to this

Have they given any thought to the fact that maybe your kids are playing video games to get away from a problem? Some alcoholics and drug addicts do what they do to escape a problem. Let’s try that first before we blame video games and their creators.

By the hate that hate created

June 22, 2007 9:00 AM | Link to this

That’s some bullsh*t con-artist trying to make money off of the HUGE sale of video games! Getting insurance to cover video game addiction? What a scam!! They need to realize that their kids are crazy and video games just brought that out! It could have been music, food, porn, whatever!! Give me a break people your no talent having kid will never be an athelete or entertainer! Maybe they will become a great computer programmer or something (lol).

Spend time with your kids. Learn the games, music, books, magazines, and stuff they like and maybe you’ll realize that the world is safer with them locked up in their room. Better that than locked up in jail!!

By Adam

June 22, 2007 9:21 AM | Link to this

Hate, you sound so angry. What’s with the condemnation of the youth?

By Lyrazel

June 22, 2007 9:24 AM | Link to this

I read in Japan there is a group of children (adult children) who live, eat and survive in their rooms on-line, don’t get out and their parents shrug their shoulders saying they don’t know what to do about this. Simple solution: unplug the damn thing. End internet access to the child’s computer or put the child on dial-up service and make him/her pay for out of work the DSL/cable internet. Limit the amount of hours allowed to a child on a computer. Its so simple actually but parents need to be involved which is the hardest part about parenting. I live in a neighborhood where most kids do not have computers in their homes or internet access and they play outside: lots of sports and bike riding are done then they go in and watch TV. Nobody builds forts anymore…sad, isnt it?

I think its ludicrous to blame producers of video games when its not the producers of video games who BUY THE CONSOLES or SOFTWARE. If they distributed it free it would be different story…but it seems more and more parents want to blame everyone but themselves for their children’s issues.

By EW

June 22, 2007 9:35 AM | Link to this

We’ve always had idiots attempting, and failing miserabley I might add, at being good parents. Wear the title of Village Idiot prouldy if you allow your mush-brained and mush-azz kids to sit and play games all day and do little else. So you think it’s okay for a kid, teen ager or not, to play violent games for hours on end so mom or dad doesn’t have to deal with them. Society and the failing health care system will have to take up the slack and deal with them later. Too bad we don’t have a compatency test to give to people before allowing them to be parents. Can you imagine how many childless couples we’d have?

By Adam

June 22, 2007 9:45 AM | Link to this

You want to see change in the obesity of youth? Four things need to happen: 1. Put PE back into schools. Make it pass or fail course. Also require students to participate on school sports teams. 2. Take the vending machines out of public schools. 3. Change the cafeteria menu at schools. Why are the kids being served junk food on a daily basis? 4. This should be common sense and obvious. Apparently it isn’t though. Parents need to be more involved.

By Bushwacker

June 22, 2007 9:53 AM | Link to this

Something is bad wrong here, in my office at work we had a seemingly healthy 48 year man that was found at home on a Sat morning slumped over his computer dead after playing video games all night. The computer is the devil’s tool and its worse then tv.