Kids at the gym?

sanfromny

Lounmoun wrote: »

My teenage dd is homeschooled and stays up later than kids who go to school so we have gone places at 10 pm with her.
We had a treadmill at home and I encouraged my dd to try it along with other exercises. She has never been overweight but exercise is good. I'm not sure she looks almost 16 to other people.
The parent could have good reasons. I might be bothered by the scene if the kid were left unattended, doing something harmful or the parent were shouting at them or calling them names.

Is it bothering you most about the apparent age, time of day, the kid being overweight and told to exercise, or the kid being in an adult gym at all? Would you feel bothered if an overweight kid that age got on a treadmill or elliptical at home?

I think the time of day---well evening, caught my attention. I have no problem with kids that age exercising, overweight or not...it's good for them and again I firmly believe that anything that can prevent the electronic zombie apocalypse that children these days are falling victim to I'm in full support of! Especially since they have taken P.E. out of many school districts, which really pisses me off!
My youngest is 11 y/o and she takes dance and they put them through the ringer but I wouldn't have her working out that late- that's just my opinion. At that age I think that sleep is imperative especially to function well in school and her school starts very early. I didn't consider possible homeschooling...in that event her day may start later and which would make 10:30 reasonable