Physical Education Advocacy 17. References and Resources 18. Unit Plans - Online Teaching Units 19. Instead, they seem to be going backwards by cutting back. We need to make a few changes to reduce these childhood problems.
Kids watch TV, play video games or interact on their home computers.
These are all sedentary ways to entertain our kids. Very little energy is expired to perform these tasks. The only muscles required are the fine motor muscles controlling their hands and eyes. The actions of jumping, running and skipping require a great deal of energy. We use the large muscles in our body to do these actions.