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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 10 yo gets around 20,000 on a normal summer day. He doesn’t wear it for his one hour swim team practice or in the pool.[/quote]

Outlier. And younger.[/quote]

NP- are 10 yo boys that much more active than 12 yos? [/quote]

No. I have a 10 year old and a 12 year old.  Both boys are very active.  My husband and I exercise daily.  The boys have always seen it and we often do physical activities together.  I actively have played sports with my kids in the backyard/park since they were young.

The camp they are currently in, is more academic this month===just a short period of gym or outdoor time.  But--every night they want to go the local park to play pick-up soccer and I have to literally drag them home after 2.5 hours.  They play the sport competitively year-round and their training sessions have very little rest time.  The older one plays the full 90 minutes in games----that is a helluva lot of running.

The 12-year old started mowing lawns for $ this summer--so there is that added activity too.  Little one swims a lot with friends outside of camp.

I read that the average American child has the activity level of a 60-year old adult in 1970.  Kids this day and age are so much more out of shape than those of us born in the 70s.  We lived outside in the summer----and I grew up here in the hot and humid misery---but we were always running, biking, swimming, etc.[/quote]

Outlier family. Go start your own thread to glow.[/quote]

It’s really sad that this is considered an outlier family.

Parents just need to say no to so much fortnight and online time.[/quote]

[b]every night they want to go the local park to play pick-up soccer and I have to literally drag them home after 2.5 hours. They play the sport competitively year-round and their training sessions have very little rest time. The older one plays the full 90 minutes in games----that is a helluva lot of running. [/b]

how's this not an outlier? or at least way about average? how many 12-yo plays pick-up soccer 2.5 hours EVERY NIGHT, or plays the full 90 minutes in soccer games?[/quote]

I guess it’s the way my brother, sister and I and all our friends were growing up so it’s normal to me.  But, in 2018 and fat America I recognize it is strange.  We always had our kids outside and active.  My kids have a few similar friends which I try to have over more than the ones that say they are bored if they are doing anything other than sitting in front of a screen/Xbox.[/quote]

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