Article: Teenagers are as sedentary as 60-year-olds by age 19

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  • WendyLeigh1119
    WendyLeigh1119 Posts: 495 Member
    The YouTube thing... lol. My 13 year old does this while group-chatting and it used to concern/annoy me... but then I remembered how after school I'd get on the home phone and spend hours making sure I talked to each best friend(and arguing with my parents over it). It's really not much different.

    And I think it's good they can group-chat and watch videos... it's just like when we'd hang in a friend's basement and do the same thing. Except they're at home where we can see them. I think parents hover and worry too much, often forgetting their own teen years.
  • ShibaEars
    ShibaEars Posts: 3,928 Member
    JeepHair77 wrote: »
    jemhh wrote: »
    SonyaCele wrote: »
    i'm 50 and really really active and i can barely get my 18 year old off the couch. its because hes so into gaming and the internet.

    Yep. I have a 10 year old. Youtube is huge with kids now. It's baffling to me that kids watch videos of other kids playing video games but that is super popular. Just sit in a chair and veg out and watch some other stranger play videos so you don't have to move a muscle.

    Right? Minecraft itself is bad enough, but I can't get over watching videos of OTHER people playing minecraft.

    That's not new to this generation, though. I was incredibly lazy as a teenager.


    Same here. I was very inactive as a teen, and into my early 20's. I didn't get serious about exercise until I was 25/26.



  • canadianlbs
    canadianlbs Posts: 5,199 Member
    #meh. i remember how much tv time people used to put in, before there was internet.
  • RuNaRoUnDaFiEld
    RuNaRoUnDaFiEld Posts: 5,864 Member
    My 80 year old mother in law is more active than my kids.

    I'm not even kidding B)
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