after writing the memory of winter evenings to Mort I thought on how much snap we used to shift as bairns & teens but I can only remember 1 or 2 porkers at school. Most of us were skinny if owt & stayed that way til our thirties. Looking at bairns today there seems to be two extremes, the skinnies who look pale & underfed and the porkers. Whats happened?
RE: Videogames, Fast food and parents that grew up on them... Reckon fast food & take aways may be reyt. Also decline of school dinners Typical days food & exercise when I was 11ish would be Walk 1 mile to school then 10 mins hopscotch, football or skipping 2 Eggs on toast wi lashings of Lurpak, cornflakes & tea 15 mins play ground games Choc bar & apple 3/4 hr games in playground 2 course school dinner wi meat or fish, 2 veg & boiled taties Fruit pie & custard or milk pudding 1hour PE of badminton, cross country, tennis or athletics Walk 1 mile home from school 2oz spice or small bag crisps Stew or chops 2 veg & chips or taties or ham & salad in teacake or wi bread Homework then laikin out ont street or rec til it got dark Do bairns do that much walking or laikin now?
Did you live in my mums house?? That sounds just like my chilhood. The answer to your question is , No they dont.
clearly its dem bastud foreigners coming ovver 'ere, indulging in our high fat diet with our free andouts innit
I dont think I'm related to you But I think most folk our age had that sort of childhood. I also rode, went to dance classes & gymnastics
Daryl you alreyt I dont think I've ever mentioned foreigners being from irish stock it wouldnt behove me to
I dont know why the kids say they have nothing to do They have more than ever before , yet they cant be bothered to do it. My kids think its evil if I make them walk anywhere.
RE: I dont know why the kids say they have nothing to do Think I've been lucky tho I did 'outsource' them a bit to grandma & a grandma aged minder so maybe having ladies help bring them up who had brought up kids our age & made them laik out & walked them to school helped. RR#2 allus chose to hike to & from DHS rather than walk cos he's mean & saved the bus fares! Made sure they played sport & eldest still swims & plays 5 a side on & off for fun. Youngest had joint and growth disorder & had to stop but still laiks tennis & football given a chance. neither of them seem to get bored
Not as much as i'd like They watch more TV than the guidelines say and they are too young to play in the street on their ownI really have to hoof them out into the back garden and they only really like playing in the street with theirriends which is weekends in the summer.</p> Mind you i work on the rough guidelines of</p> Fruit once a day</p> Crips once a week</p> Sweet drinks only at the weekend</p> Chips once a week</p> Veg every main meal ... even if it's only baked beans</p> AFEW sweets most days, but not much chocolate</p> Cake for pudding two or three times a week</p> Fast food (McDonalds/KFC) once a month</p> My wife has told our 4 year old she'll only be allowed Coca Cola when she's 18 ...but she does get to drink lemonade as part of her weekend soft drinks. She has one of the best six packs I've ever seen and when she sits down at the table she can really put it away. I don't know where it goes</p>
RE: Not as much as i'd like Baked beans are a pulse Stu - I think. Anyway, sounds a good set up. How's VF? Have they made you rich with a big fat payoff yet?
24 hour TV, playstations, facebook etc There was no TV in the seventies when I was a whippersnapper, except the potters wheel and the windmill. I don't remember watching TV much until maybe the eighties when I started watching Grange Hill etc, but then it was off outside to laik until 9pm when it was time to come in, exhausted from tigs, hiddy, kick can, bulldog, togger, cricket, starting fires in the woods etc. Who got lifts to school? People ate more calories on average in the seventies than now, but there were less processed foods, more fresh foods and much more exercise. Modern life caught up, our parents took advantage of everything it had to offer, we carried on and now our kids are suffering.
I reckon I need a few more years and a grade or two before they pay me off</p> Nobody ever complains about it though</p>
50% Most of the responces to this thread have just talked about the fats kids. What about the skinny ones? are we splitting into 2 species. I wondered if it was a class thing, but suspect its more complex than that.
RE: 50% You reckon ? </p> We're starting to see the human species split into 2 main body types ? Or pre-disposed to being fat or skinny depending on lifestyle/surroundings etc ? </p>
Blame the School run and over protective parents. When I was a kid I had to walk to School. Only about a mile but it was healthy. One lad who lived at Jump ran home and back to School at Dinner times. That was about a 6 mile round trip. We did have a one and a half hour lunch break though. I see parents who live less than half a mile away from my local School using Chelsea tractors every Day to drop the kids off. Double parking for a couple of hundred yards on a bus route. Imagine the chaos that causes every Day. The local School fields which kids played football on is now fenced off. There is a rec close by but it's full of dog **** and the grass is just too long.
