| If you talk to the majority of parents and experts in the | | | | sudden the need for physical activity has become a |
| world they will tell you that the number of lazy | | | | goal rather than a part of life. |
| teenagers have increased with the onslaught of | | | | We can agree that technology has helped to create |
| modern technology. It would appear that teenagers | | | | the lazy teenager monster. It is a hard monster to |
| today are doomed to obesity because they are | | | | defeat. |
| spending too much time in front of the television and | | | | The bottom line is that the computer, television, cell |
| computer and can't seem to pry their cell phones from | | | | phones and other gadgets of modern technology are |
| their ears. Parents remember a time long before | | | | fun. They are entertaining and some of it can even be |
| computers and cell phones. Their fondest memories | | | | educational but few offer the benefits of physical |
| seem to be of excursions with friends participating in | | | | activity. There are ways to deal with the lazy |
| activities that provided ample opportunity for them to | | | | teenager. As parents you have to control access to |
| show their creative side. They view their lazy | | | | these time consuming activities and offer options that |
| teenagers as prisoners to information technology. | | | | are just as fun and interesting for your child. Choose a |
| They blame themselves for providing these luxuries to | | | | day during the week that is dedicated to family |
| their children and leading them astray. Perhaps there is | | | | physical activity. Engage in yard games, go bowling, do |
| some truth to all of this. But there is more. | | | | anything that will allow your lazy teenager to get some |
| First of all there have always been lazy teenagers. | | | | exercise and develop their creative interaction. |
| The difference is that many parents today do not | | | | The best part of this process is that you build upon the |
| push their children as hard as they, their parents or | | | | relationship with your lazy teenager and provide |
| their grandparents were pushed. There was no doubt | | | | yourself with badly needed exercise as well. Don't |
| a time when teenagers were expected to perform | | | | create this to be a punishment. Build it up to be a family |
| numerous chores that were detrimental to family | | | | night that should mean a lot to everyone. The key here |
| survival. The work was hard and the opportunities for | | | | is consistency. Plan it and stick to it at all costs. Also |
| fun were even more appreciated. This does not mean | | | | don't be afraid to find some physical work that needs |
| that some of those teenagers did not have a lazy | | | | to be done around the house like cleaning out a shed |
| streak only that this feeling was vetoed on a regular | | | | or painting and pay your teenager a little money to do |
| basis. Second of all we have to remember that | | | | it. It does not have to be a parent verses lazy |
| modern technology has not only created lazy | | | | teenager scenario. Search for opportunities together |
| teenagers but lazy adults as well. | | | | that will turn your lazy teenager into a physically active |
| Technology has made all of our lives easier. All of the | | | | participant in the world around them. |