Originally Posted by
DropBarFan
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
Meh, even going back in the times of the Icelandic sagas, adults have been lamenting the laziness and sloth of the youth, how they'd rather sit around gorging themselves on mead and living off their inheritance than going out and raiding and building up their own wealth. Somehow, we've survived.