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The Bad News About Couch Potatoes
An Excerpt
By Rae Pica
It's certainly understandable if you're having trouble wrapping your mind around this topic. After all, with everything we have to worry about for our children, their getting enough exercise shouldn't even be on the list. Don't children, just by virtue of being children, move enough?
Really, it may seem that way. But that could be because, with everything we have to get done these days, it feels as if the children are always underfoot – or on our nerves – keeping us from getting through the to-do list! After all, we have fulltime jobs, homes to clean, laundry to do, groceries to buy, spouses requiring our attention, kids to shuttle hither and yon. And through it all, we are forever admonishing the youngest of our children to sit still, stop their squirming and not run! Certainly, it feels as if they're moving too much! But fidgeting, squirming and the occasional burst of speed down a supermarket aisle can't begin to be considered minimal.
Of course, another explanation for this misconception about children being constantly on the move is that, given our own childhoods, we may simply equate being young with being perpetually in motion. If so, we might just be imagining
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