Kid Health Experts Attack Video Game Summer Camp 123
Jack Action writes "The University of British Columbia runs a summer camp where kids get to play computer games for three hours a day. The camp organizers say it is 'a good social opportunity for some kids who didn't fit into other programs.' However, health professionals declare they are 'troubled' by the camp. A professor in UBC's department of medicine says kids should be outside and engaged in 'unstructured play,' while the CEO of an NGO that monitors kids' health chimes in that they already spend too much time in front of screens and not exercising. Do the health experts have a point, or are they just criticizing something they don't understand, or perhaps is not to their taste?"
Re:3 Hours A Day (Score:5, Informative)
Well this being Canada, for the remaining 8hrs, we go out as a young child and wrangle our first beaver. Once we've successfully captured ibe, without our ankles being gnawed off we go for the moose. They're very tame, believe it or not. We haven't had a single goring fatality up here in 30 years. Once you've successfully got your pet beaver, and your war moose. We go hunting the national pest, it's called the Canadian Goose or They who shit on everything. That pretty much fills up the summer, kids are then taught to bunker down for the winter which lasts 8mo between construction, and black fly month.
This isn't forgetting in the winter we have hockey, and hockey to keep us active and ensure we get snow blindness.
Re:If it was a "reading" camp (Score:5, Informative)
I would suggest those "troubled health professionals" find a summer camp where they can go fuck themselves for 3 hours a day.
Re:Last I checked... (Score:3, Informative)
i'm one of those that didn't bother with extracurricular activities or homework and i don't live in my parents' basement, you insensitive clod.
Re:Last I checked... (Score:3, Informative)
Close, it was for a grade and they actually did tend to give absurd quantities of work.
Re:Last I checked... (Score:3, Informative)
All three i personally attended in 3 different states on opposite coasts and several dozen more spread throughout the country that people I've conversed with have attended.
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=off&q=%223+hours+of+homework%22&fp=d9bfea1616ddd46f [google.com]