The times have changed and as far as nutrition is concerned not for good. Today America is battling against large percentage of childhood obesity and dangerous diseases caused by it, like Type II diabetes and hypertension. It is an epidemic. Unfortunately, the children are not to blame. They learn from what they see around and what is taught to them.
As a kid, I learnt
A for Apple B for Banana...
C for Carrot D for Dog...
With the changing times the vocabulary has changed. Now it is
A for Apple Pie B for Burger...
C for Cookies D for Doughnuts..
M is no for Mango but is for McDonald's....N is no more for Nest but for Nuggets. P is for Pizza and not for Peas & S is for Soda and not Sun.
I was unpleasantly shocked when I observed this personally in kids. For every alphabet, kids today have either a junk food name or a video game. And not just kids, even adults too.
Alphabets are the first thing any child learns. They identify objects by name when they learn alphabets. Back in the days each alphabet was associated with either a fruit, vegetable, animal or sports - all nature friendly and essential for a healthy lifestyle. Its high time we revise our kindergarten lessons and educate the new generation rightly.
How hard could it be??
3 comments:
you are so right and all the big fast food chains or food products target kids for their food and they are all responsible for obesity here. kids forgot to play outside and whole day video games. That's the one most imp. rule in my house that no video games whatsoever allowed. play PBS games on computer in weekend for hour that's it.
Rightly said megha.. Very true.. It is we elders who have to take care that our kids don't get addicted to either of them!
true that!
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