January 12, 2010
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Step Away From The Ho-Hos And Video Games Kids
I saw this program a bit ago and thought it sounded pretty fantastic. The NFL isn’t just over-paying athletes and entertaining us, they’re encouraging kids to get at least 60 minutes of exercise a day too. Check out NFL PLAY 60, a campaign to get kids healthy and active by going outside to play. I’m a big fan of programs like this and say hats off to the NFL for creating one of them. I’m wondering though, what happened to that simple and automatic get off the bus after school, rush inside the house, change into grass-stained torn jeans (AKA “play clothes”) and run around with your siblings and neighbors until dark. When did kids stop playing kick-ball for 4 hours straight in their play clothes?
Wow, I am so 1987.
Kids these days have the President and NFL stars telling them to get up and out. Ooooh, so fancy and big time. When I was a kid it was my Mom who was the one with the consistent line yelling something like; “Get your butt outside and go play until I call you for dinner!”
Wouldn’t it be so fun if we were done with work everyday by 2 or 3pm and we got to go play until dark?
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