Comment on British children are 3 times more likely than Dutch children to be obese. A British journalist explains why

Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Of course kids can’t go bike riding because they are not allowed to be outside your sight.

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• DireTech@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Most kids have no where nearby to go on bikes. Plus cars and trucks are enormously more dangerous to kids these days thanks to being much larger, heavier and quicker to accelerate.

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  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Are you saying that suburban families with kids no longer live next to schools, parks, friends?

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    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Correct. I live in suburbia. I can’t ride a bike to anything useful without going on a multi lane highway.

      I don’t even trust myself to do that ride without dying. People think cars own the roads.

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    • DireTech@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Obviously friends their age would depend on neighborhood demographics.

      However, in the US many of them are not able to bike to a playground or school and anything beyond their street could be a high speed road. I’d say only a small percentage can bike to the places you mentioned, especially after elementary age. Some areas of the US are good, but I doubt more than a tiny fraction of the kids in places like Texas could do that.

      We specifically moved because our old neighborhood lacked all 3 and I didn’t want my kids growing up the way I did.

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      • lechekaflan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        However, in the US many of them are not able to bike to a playground or school

        I find it infuriating that in some places there you can’t let your kid walk to school alone.

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      • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Agreed. I’m just saying that I’ve seen behavior burby places change, even when the demographics, parks, and schools reminded similar.

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• lechekaflan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I imagine that is a combo of helicopter parenting

  This absurdity is one of the reasons I refused to emigrate to the US.

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