Fun day organised at Radlett recreation ground (From Watford Observer)

I bet the Radlett nimbies try and ban it !

This is what children need to be doing instead of being plonked in front of a console day in, day out.

Brilliant memories of racing my red Raleigh burner BMX, wheelies, endos, posers and table tops in the early 80s...

Good times with maybe an hour on the ZX Spectrum at the end of the day.

Andrew Turpie wrote:
This is what children need to be doing instead of being plonked in front of a console day in, day out. Brilliant memories of racing my red Raleigh burner BMX, wheelies, endos, posers and table tops in the early 80s... Good times with maybe an hour on the ZX Spectrum at the end of the day.

I caught sight of that bedtime program yesterday evening.There were these three boys in the same family who from when they come home from school often play computer games for 6 hours, sometimes more and not getting to sleep till 3am!

There was a short segment with the parents, the dad seemed slightly exasperated about it the mum kind gave the impression that she was okay with it as it kept them busy and out of their hair.

The program made the point however that adequate sleep is vital to childrens learning and that lack of sleep has a major impact on how well they do at school.

I've never gotten this seemingly common place thing that modern parents do of believing that good parenting equals giving their sprogs a games console, television, dvd player and computer with internet access often in their own room where its unsupervised. And then they wonder why their kids dont do well, or mis behave.

Sorry, off topic but yes I think anything that encourages kids to get out and be active should be totally supported