Kids Growing Up, Sadly, Dangerously Inactive
And at the other end , only one in four adolescents is physically active for 60 minutes a day, according to USA Today. Kids 12-15 would rather (like my son) curl up with Black Ops 2 (I know, I know, I'm a bad mother) than run around outside for hours, the way I did as a kid (and keep in mind, I wasn't in the least athletic!). But times were different. There were two other families in the neighborhood the same age as my brother and me and we climbed trees (well, not me) and played kickball on the turn-around at the top of the road and chased each other and the dogs (actually, the dogs chased us) and everything was fun and we could stay out till after dark in the summer, even in the woods that surrounded all our houses, without having to worry about the pedophiles or rapists or even just the dads who liked pretty young girls. But today kids are more interested in their computers, or hanging out at the mall (with very little of what the mall's for, in my opinion -- walk...