Thread: No wonder our kids are lazy

Originally Posted by UncleHo

I am involved with an after school homework club for local primary school children whose parent/carer is in the workforce,the kids tell us of those rules and regulations,and the older ones complain at being restricted except going to sports. Rant over

Living proof that it is never too late to go back and get that education !!!!!!

I'm fairly fit, and an avid snow and water skier, but I have been known to kick start the motorbike and ride it all of 15 meters from the shearing shed to the workshop mind you that probably takes more energy than walking! Haha

Originally Posted by newhue

You are right there Bob, and it is how you see it. I choose to see it like you most days. Just an ageing gentleman going for a pleasant stroll at a nice time of the day.
But these days now largely due to the media, we have to be happy with your not a nice gentleman going for a pleasant stroll near a school. You are a threat to children because your male. You are probably watched by many, possibly even filmed, and given you go for a walk at three O'clock daily raises concerns with some in society. That is why Johnny's mum drives him the 400m school.

On top of this Johnny is generally lazy from being spoilt, unorganised because he has been cotton wooled, fat from wrong foods, and cant concentrate on anything more than reactive actions from playing game boy.
Now where s the cricket bat, who gets it first.

So what your really trying to say Jason,, is Bob should stay at home because he's stopping all the kids in his area from getting exercise,,,

Originally Posted by Chops

So what your really trying to say Jason,, is Bob should stay at home because he's stopping all the kids in his area from getting exercise,,,

yeh mate, Bob the big baddie stopping all those kids from walking. Particularly you North siders.

Seriously I have a mate who works at a school and he has to be so careful of his actions. Never being in a place with one child, always making sure someone can hear conversations, and so on. His had colleges been accessed of all sorts of garbage from kids looking for attention. Now poor Bob going for a walk a 3pm everyday, particularly past a school would raise concernes with some.
I kind of know a police person who traps kidy fiddlers, and even a bloke who manages a jail, so I'm aware of how sad society can be. But the media also do us no favours with how they report things. Society is not that bad, but to them it is.
Bob's era who came form being resilient, responsible, proud, fair, and other good values, had little mass media to blow it out of proportion. Litigation was not such a underlying possibility to life. And people were more approachable perhaps. The up and coming generations don't see it that way. Rather many prefer to blame someone because it wasn't there fault. Just look at the take up of cameras in private cars. It's sold as too protect, but really it's to blame.

It's driving kids the 400m to the bus stop that starts and supports that kind of thinking. Not all cases obviously, but if its from a cotton wool approach then it flows on.
Thinking like weeds, letting the kids rider their bikes, trusting them, and letting them work out the realities of their actions from riding a bike are all good life skills to make for reasonable and balanced adults.

So in my world, Bob fill your boots. But I stand and observe another world quite often that I see as quite lousy for my kids to enjoy.

I've just hit 51.
As a kid, I can't count the miles we did on bikes and walking. We we're fit and strong even though we smoked. Even as kids, we were always aware of the "baddies" around, and were told to be careful.
I don't really think it's actually any worse now than it was years ago, it's just the populations bigger, so naturally there's just more of them.

We have an older guy who walks around the area, he can't be too bad,, he always looks at my car, , and I noticed that he walks through our court now,, I'm sure he'll be up for a yarn when he finally gets to meet me out the front of my place.

I know the electronic games etc that's available to everyone now are good fun, and can be good for both learning and motor skills/hand-eye coordination but, with so much intensity kids put into it, instead of being out and about, they just get phisicaly lazy.

The parents, who are busy working, become time poor and stressed out with bills etc, and add to that crappy sensationalised news reporting about the so called crappy world we live in, it's just easier to run the kids in the car than be further stressed. This is amplified by little Johnny being dropped off one day, so little Billy wants to be dropped off too. It's a form of peer pressure that the parents get drawn into as well.
Add to all that, as said before, litigations about everything, no one wants to push exercise in schools etc, the poor kids are just getting bigger and lazier, and they unfortunately can't see it. We hated doing laps at school, but still knew it was good for us. We fell over, we cried, we got up, mum and dad told us we were daft for tripping up etc, and we all moved on, on to the next hazard

Of course, being fit and active has its downside too.
There are many of us out there now who pay the price for being strong as a young person, lifting more than you really should, in a way you really shouldn't.
But there'll be no "it's your fault" from many of us, it's just not the way we were brought up.

I hope our kids can learn the value of exercise early, but be taught the right way to lift/work and still have a good attitude about it all, without the "want" to blame everything on everybody else.

I was working on a fenced off school construction site & part of the site induction contained the info that "At no time were any site people to talk to the school kids or if anything came over the fence i.e. footy, cricket, tennis ball etc, we were not to throw it back".
I felt like a really rude bastard when some young fellas came up to the fence, asking if the instrument I was using was a camera & if I'd take their photos, as I had to completely ignore them.
They walked off muttering bad things about me & I couldn't blame them.
I couldn't even explain to them what I was doing! One little bit of education, however minor, down the gurgler.
In the past, at schools, I've quite often had an interested group of kids asking questions about what I was doing & how, but not anymore!
How insular are these rule makers making them.
I'm sure some of these rule makers must have been wimps at school & are trying to protect others from their own erroneous perception of social conditions.
Whew. That's me done!!

Originally Posted by Eevo

my mum never walked me to school.
stood at the front gate, gave me a kiss and told me how proud she was of me and waved goodbye.

i was told to get on your way to school,as were my three brothers,the walk to the bus stop was just over 1.3K.Rain,hail or shine.

Goodbye and see you this arvo were the words from Mum.

And after we got home it was off into the scrub to take the dogs for a walk,with a slingshot or two and later on an air rifle.
Had to be home by dark or we copped a sore backside.

Those were the fun days the kids these days miss out on....

G'day 3Toes

Yup! back in the edjmucation roundabout again as if 16 years of school bus driving didn't cure me,well that just goes to show that I/we enjoy working with the kids, and yes, we both hold current "Blue Cards" but then again I was driving SB's long before the Blue Card was around,it was a full police check in those days,even got reminded of a traffic offence(speeding) in 1961

It would be getting a tad cool up your way about now, here a balmy 27* and we are doing well in the cricket.

Bung-Tiddley