Comments on: Remember Recess? http://www.chubbymommy.com/weight-loss-matters/remember-recess/ Diet, weight loss and health news Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:15:44 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Chubby Mommy http://www.chubbymommy.com/weight-loss-matters/remember-recess/comment-page-1/#comment-31 Chubby Mommy Fri, 06 Jul 2007 18:23:43 +0000 Every day seems to bring new doom and gloom about childhood obesity, and yet it seems the most obvious solutions are so seldom explored. Consider this: children spend around 7 hours -- roughly 60% of their day -- at school during the school year.#comment-31 Children need to get out that energy, and teachers need to provide more ways to do it. If they're going to insist that we turn the majority of our kids' lives over to them, the least they can do is assist us in keeping our kids healthy! Children need to get out that energy, and teachers need to provide more ways to do it. If they’re going to insist that we turn the majority of our kids’ lives over to them, the least they can do is assist us in keeping our kids healthy!

]]> By: jae http://www.chubbymommy.com/weight-loss-matters/remember-recess/comment-page-1/#comment-30 jae Fri, 06 Jul 2007 18:13:06 +0000 Every day seems to bring new doom and gloom about childhood obesity, and yet it seems the most obvious solutions are so seldom explored. Consider this: children spend around 7 hours -- roughly 60% of their day -- at school during the school year.#comment-30 Nevermind that invigorating exercise helps increase focus and concentration. What's the first thing to go as "discipline"? Recess. My kids got one 20 minute recess, after lunch, at their school. We used to have a minimal of two thirty-minute recesses. No wonder the increase in kids on meds for "ADHD" is so high... I can't even get started on that one. Nevermind that invigorating exercise helps increase focus and concentration. What’s the first thing to go as “discipline”? Recess.

My kids got one 20 minute recess, after lunch, at their school. We used to have a minimal of two thirty-minute recesses.

No wonder the increase in kids on meds for “ADHD” is so high… I can’t even get started on that one.

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