Making exercise fun for kids

The data is clear: Kids are spending too little time out in the sunshine and too much time in front of screens.

The trend is dramatic. Over the past decade, the amount of time that kids under the age of 8 years old spend on mobile devices has increased from a mere 5 minutes to nearly 3 hours per day. This is true of even our smallest kids who are now averaging at least 1 hour per day on screens before their second birthday.

As you can imagine, screen time reports get even worse as kids get older. The CDC reports that kids ages 8-10 are clocking in an incredible 6 hours a day in front of a screen. These numbers reach a near staggering 10 hours per day during the teenage years.

Certainly, some of this time can be attributed to the increasing demands of academics for older children; however, social media, gaming, and television streaming are very much to blame and are beginning to creep into our children’s lives earlier and earlier.