Sue Scheff: Physical Education and your teens
Let's face it, more and more kids today are engrossed with their computers and cell phones. Less are participating in physical activity . Years ago a game of kick-ball in the neighborhood was a weekly or even daily event afterschool. Today with the fear of our kids being kidnapped or the kids simply more interested in their technology, teens and kids are not getting enough exercise. Parents it is time to speak up. PE 4 Life is an organization that can help you bring more psychical education into your school district and your community. Do you realize that schools have devalued and cut physical education to the point that the majority of children get one day of PE per week? Children today have a shorter life expectancy than their parents for the first time in one hundred years because of the epidemic of obesity, according to Dr. William Klish, Professor of Pediatrics and Head of Pediatric Gastroenterology at Baylor College of Medicine. Lack of PE at school is a disservice to y...