June 21, 2007
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No Child Left Inside
Okay folks get the medications out, we have a new disorder for our youth it's called Nature Deficit Disorder. Seriously, I couldn't make this crap up.
Is this just another disorder, invented for the purpose of selling books? Is it another way to make parents paranoid? Is it another label we can attach to kids to make excuses for their behavior?
Or could it be true? Millions of kids, stuck inside, never seeing a tree, or a butterfly? Kids destined to learn to ride a bike at 50 years old?
Will the future be filled with obese adults, having mudaphobia? Will this be the future of our commercials :
Do you panic when you see a tree?
Does the sound of a bird make you throw up?
Is all your furniture made of plastic?
If so you might have, Nature Deficit Disorder.Ask your doctor about Sidewalkchalk.
Said real fast: Don't use Sidewalkchalk if you are between the ages of 20 and 25. Sidewalkchalk causes diarrhea and constipation in 99% of people who use Sidewalkchalk on Mondays and Thursdays. Tell your doctor if you are suddenly playing hopscotch in your office and have taken to urinating outside. You may have to discontinue use. Sidewalkchalk doesn't really work, we are just capitalizing on a new disorder. So call your Dr. today. If your Dr. prescribes sidewalkchalk, we will give him or her an all expense paid trip to Hawaii.
Please people! Don't let this happen to us. Take your kids outside. Let them build a fort. Teach them how to swing on a rope over a creek, causing them to fall in, thereby ruining the new poncho you brought back from Mexico. True story.
The future of our youth is in your hands. We can stop this disorder if we work together.TAKE YOUR KIDS OUTSIDE. They'll thank you later.
This public service announcement was sponsored by Momofjenmatt and Friends who yearn for the sixties, when kids could run wild.
Comments (61)
my grandson love being outside...but he throws such a fit when I try to bring him in, the neighbors think I am beating him the way he screams & hollers....
Can't we just medicate the children?
Kids should be running (just not wild). Can't we put down the TV's and video games for a moment. :guitar10:
Great post! :tigger34:
LOL, no doubt. I miss the time when it was safe to play outside. I watch my kids like a hawk when they are out, but they do play (have played) outside a lot. Too freakin' sad we have to have a label for everything under the sun though.
I lol'd at "Does the sound of a bird make you throw up?"
Bud and I aren't sporty by trade, but we do enjoy the sunshine and walking.
Love your disclaimer. I'm not the outdoorsy type but there's nothing better than having fun outside in the warm months, and even a bit in the snow, with kids. It keeps ya' young! ryc: LOL There's a reason I won't do kid duty for other people. (Or should I say dootie?) lol I'm not so much about it. But you're right. Some people probably would pay for someone to potty train their kids. :hmmm22:
Yeah, I found out yesterday that we had a tree... that's what happens when Xanga goes down for an entire day. I have grass and plants too, who knew.
You crack me up :sillygrin28: :hmmm22: :sillygrin28: :hmmm22: :sillygrin28:
Have a wonderful day!
Hugs,Tricia
A way to make money on the book, money on pharmaceuticals, and a way for parents that are "too busy" to be parents to feel better about not taking their kids to the park. I'm sure Tyra will have a special on it. Just like grotesque promiscuity can now be written off as "sexual addiction".
I plan to now pursue a career as a psychotherapist. Obviously the market is expanding.
PS: LOL @ "mudaphobia". made me think of my middle one. He plays outside every day, but runs in terror very upset for a washrag if his bike gets muddy. He's the feminine one. LOL
Oh, and I LOVED your disclaimer. LOL That was the best part of your blog. For that, you definately get stars.
Take your kids outside, where they may step on bees and wasps to their heart's desire!
My son will never have that "disorder". That's for sure. If there was one for too much nature, then there could be a chance of him having that, but don't think that would happen either. hehehehe take care!!
I try to force my kids out. They need it.
And we did run, and bike, and climb, and jump and swim and pogostick and hopscotch and jumprope. One black and white tv for the whole family. No answering machine on the one phone line. There are so many obese, and I mean morbidly obese, kids nowadays. When I was a kid there was, like, one fat kid in the whole school of about 600 kids. Now it's practically the norm to be chubby. Gawd.
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OMG, that's horrible. I know some kids with NDD (not mine, of course). What's the cure? Is it inherited? :sillygrin28:
LOL that's hilarious! I agree with you! :snoopy23:
:tigger34:I need to boot my kids outside or I'M the one who'll need the meds!!!!!!
BTW, this post was (as my teenager would say) ....HILAR!!!
Very well said. Thankfully my son doesn't have that. He likes to go outside. :snoopy23:
RYC: I had read that after I posted it. That is a bummer. Poor Xanga. How have you been? I used to be Auntdee. I was subbed to you under that name. Hope everything is well
My children painted themselves from head to foot with mud -- you could only see their eyes and the hole where their noses and mouths were. I'm fairly sure they are safe from Nature Deficit Disorder. Maybe not though as they have since discovered Myspace, Gaia, Wii and MSN messenger. Is there a checklist :question29:-- I'm starting to panic now, thankfully I forced them on a hike just a couple of weeks ago. Youngest is spending days gardening and hiking and oldest riding her bicycle.... breathe, breathe, OK, I think it's all good.
I say is just another way for people to avoid responsibility for their actions!!!
This is one of my all time favorites......LOL all over the floor. The disclaimer makes it all real. If I thought like you, I'd be laughing at myself all day and wouldn't need any friends.
I have actually taken my sons camping in our yard! We slept in a tent the whole night! "what was that sound?! AAAGGGH! It's DAD snoring! :tigger34: woohoo hoo hoo! (Looky Thar, I commented!):storm4: These emoticons are too much fun! I want them!:bye2: peace out!
Too funny!:sun3: And sadly true in alot of cases.
As far as I'm concerned, the best reason for sending the kiddies outside is to have peace and quiet inside.
Depends on where you live, if the chiggers that carry lyme disease surrounds your house, no. If west niles comes to your neighborhood no. If you live in the Ghetto and there is a shooting war, no.
Tricks to get your kids outside. Tell them the electrical repairman is comming and you want all the electrical use stopped. Another trick clean the house with strong solvents.....
But of course your kids are grown and it is too late for them. However most of your charges at the juvenile deliquient school are the opposite...too much of latchkey kids.....
Haha. Nice. =)
lol - have you been watching us? I pay camp a ridiculous amount of money so my kids will play outside and they come home telling me about the computer games they've played.
As much as kids need to get outside...this is just another way for drug companies to make money off something completely "curable". When will the "drug war" end?
:bird7:So true**and I loved to build forts:) thanks Laura..un oh..I better email them if it keep up* take care..hugs, love, Lee
ryc: Well I knew it was fake, of course, I was instead commenting on how it wouldn't surprise me if a drug like this came out...they have something for everything else.
Amen!!!! :flowerkiss12:
Great Post!!!
I totally agree, I am a 16 year old who LOVES the outdoors. Sometimes I wish I could live in the past, a time when your really didn't worry about serial killers on the loose.
thanks for droping by, and the comment on the new hair color.. yeah i understand about kids not getting out these days.. sometimes it's hard to get myself of the computer chair.. too many things that are distractions from real life and nature (hence why i will not have any kids).. i remember playing for hours as a kid outside.. i think the answer is less electronics and less couch potato parents.
Oh P.S. adults should step up to the plate and take responsibility for their shortcomings in parenting and please... STOP LABELING EVERY "DISORDER"!!
hahahah that was funny.. I enjoyed it
so very true! great post!
sheesh.
although I think I like a "no child left inside" initiative. Otherwise known in my house growing up as "YOU AND YOUR BROTHERS GO OUTSIDE AND PLAY BEFORE I GO OUT OF MY MIND!" Ah, the joys of summer.
Thank god my kids are safe. I have been known to boot them out into the back yard and lock the door.
The only problem with the sixties is that after the kids went outside and went wild they had to go to Vietnam.
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thats funny. You are so talented.
amen sister and thats why Im movign to colorado:sillygrin28::sunflowers26:
but its dangerous outside.
and yes i did just call out my in-laws in hopes of getting a rise out of them, or at least a bit of awkwardness on our next encounter.
I had visions of something like this happening as I watched my son play golf in his bedroom!
I got a good laugh out of this. I'm an outdoor enthusiast...always outside...of course living in the kaibab national forest'll do that to ya.
You had me laughing my ass off with this one. That is absolutely wonderful!
=) nice
i wish my parents could make us go out more... infact, i think i should just motivate myself to go outside, huh =) great reminder, thanks, i hope i do go out =)
xoxo
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Hilarious!
But I do think kids are getting too stuck on computers and video games very early in life. We even have DVD players in minivans now, so that kids have something to keep them occupied on long drives or road trips. Heaven forbid they ever look at the scenery or interact with anyone else in the car!
What's else... Jumpin' syndrome?
If it weren't for those blasted mosquitoes - my boys would be out everyday! Outside activities do SO much for expanding ones imagination. If you have a safe place to let them out - do so and go with them (smiles all around)!
Lol, does a sound of a bird make me throw up? That`s hilarious.. Not only is being cooped up bad for kids but for everyone.
I would die if they stuck me inside.
100% country girl
XD This was an awesome post. Seriously, who would decide to keep they're kids inside? Kids love being dirty. Who are we to take that from them?
Also, ADD is a SCAM. *End of Public Service Announcement*
I agree! I grew up on a farm and it was one of the best childhoods imaginable because I was running around outside constantly. When I have kids, I hope they can have the same that I've had.
ya it's totally true kids these days don't get enough excersise and they don't get enough time outdoors. I was spoiled as a kid I used to be able to go down to the river that runs by my house and just walk and talk to myself (lol) or play 'n' stuff. ya anyway. adults need outside time too so it works both ways
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This should be posted in some prominent place somewhere where everyone will see it LOL! I wonder how many people would be gulible enough to believe that totally wacky disclamer. which although it's funny is unfortunatly all to true there's hardly any more "normal" people left they all have some weird disorder it's kinda funny actually. I know first hand the way people capitalize on disorders because I have one ( mine is real) lol I sometimes think that they just make up disorders in order to explain the behavior of people who are different which is soooooo ruuuuude! but what can a gal do o well
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