Originally Posted by
Spartan112
Terrible parents indeed, but are they any worse than the ones that feed their kids McDonalds everyday and let them play video games and watch tv all day long?
That is an excellent point.
Its easy to point the finger at the guy in the article and hate him.
But just take a stroll through your local WalMart (you don't have to buy anything)....look at the parents and the kids...you will see kids age 12 that are pushing morbidly obese territory.
It makes me want to slap the crap out of the parents, but I don't really feel its my place to tell them how to parent (even though I do feel some kind of obligation to tell them what they are doing to their kids).
My parents never stressed exercise, but they didn't need to, since I was an athletic kid all through my youth. They also *never* bought soda, ice cream, potato chips, or any of the other crap that most American families keep by the palette these days.