The Couch Potato Generation
According to a reset survey, Britain’s kids aren’t as fit as their parents and grandparents. They don’t read a books, they don’t write letters and for most of their free time they just slump in front of a television or computer.
The problem starts at school. Teachers nowadays have to give a lot of time to subjects like Enlish, Maths, Science and foreing languages and so pupils don’t less PE and Games. Also, most pupils don’t walk or cycle to school. Some go on the bus, but more and more parents take their children to school and back by car.
When they get home, what do they do? Do they play in the garden or in the street? Do they go to the park for a game of football or tennis? No, they sit down and watch TV or play a computer game. The survey says that sixty per cent of British children have got a television or computer in the bedroom.
Jonh, 13 is one of the young people in the survey. He lives less than a mile away from his school, but he doesn’t walk to school. His mother takes him there and back by car. At break and lunchtime he stands and talks to his friends. When he getshome he switces his TV on and he doesn’t switch it off until he goes to bed-six hours later! He doesn’t read books and he doesn’t go out. If he wants to talk to his friends, he uses the telephone.
The survey is about young people in Britain, but this isn’t just a British problem. Surveys in other countries show that it’s happening all oves the world. ‘Kids today just don’t take enough exercise’, says Dr. Morgan, ‘and they eat too much junk food, too. It’s very sad. We’ve got all these wonderful things-televisions, video-recorders, computers, cars - but they’re producing a generation of couch potatoes’.
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