Third Set of Sources

I unfortunately have not gotten to the third set of my sources. I have had a lot of issues with this blog and got very behind in the deadlines and have been trying to play catch up all week. I guess technology isn’t my thing. Which I guess is a good thing since my paper is all about some of the downfalls of technology. At least we all now know that my son will not be learning any of this from me. J

I do want to say thank you to all of my classmates that did respond to my first set of sources though. All of the feedback I got was great and is going to be in the front of my mind while writing the final draft of my paper. There was some very helpful information in all of the responses. More than I imagined actually. This will help considerably. I especially love the comments from the people that have children and have been through or are going through this stage of their lives. I have a son but he is only 16 months old, so I have not had to deal with this just yet. So, when he gets to be older you can guarantee I will be coming back to this paper and those comments for a little advice.

Since I don’t have any sources to write about, I thought I would write a short summary as to where my thoughts are on my topic so far. I feel that schools do not serve healthy lunches. I think this could be a small cause for childhood obesity. My strongest opinion on this is that children do not get out enough. Technology has taken over and playing video games or watching TV is more appealing than playing outside. I think that parents play a big role in this. If your children are active at a young age then hopefully they will want to stay that way. If a parent is always inside then how is the child going to learn that there are a lot of great things to do to be active? We, the parents, need to take responsibility and teach our children these things. Interact with them and have fun. Play games, run around, go skiing or for a hike. It not only benefits the children but the adults too.

When I was young I ate the school lunches but I was also very athletic. My dad made sure of that. He was very active too. I played soccer competitively for 12 years. To keep me in shape and trained to play my father not only pushed me to do it, he did it with me. This not only made me try harder (it was a lot of fun to beat him in things sometimes) but it also gave us the bonding time. It kept him in shape too.

I also think that schools need to incorporate PE back into the curriculum. We took a PE class every year and got graded on it.

If children would do a little exercise everyday then they would have room to be able to play video games and watch TV.