Originally Posted by
jefnvk
To be brutally fair? The kids I see today are getting far more exercise than I ever did. Its not a run around and play how you see fit style like me, but rather structured sports and rigirous activities. Yes, there's a lot of iPhones (like there was a lot of SNES and SEGA in my day), but they're hardly sitting around doing nothing.
Participation in youth organized sports has been dropping over past few years, participation in "calorie-burning" sports like cycling esp so. Many kids do school sports at a younger age & drop out in high school...strangely the article below doesn't even mention phones as a cause...phones seem to be even more addicting than video games. Many kids
do spend all their spare time shut in their rooms looking at their phones. Just the other day I learned that a friend's niece got a phone at age 6, wow.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...=.aa0fb81fe0ab