Comments on: Trainer Michelle Bridges suggests “bootcamp” style workouts for schoolkids http://www.mythor.net/thebiggestloser/2008/03/27/trainer-michelle-bridges-suggests-bootcamp-style-workouts-for-schoolkids/ News and recaps for episodes of the Australian Biggest Loser. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:53:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mythor http://www.mythor.net/thebiggestloser/2008/03/27/trainer-michelle-bridges-suggests-bootcamp-style-workouts-for-schoolkids/comment-page-1/#comment-4920 Mythor Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:47:16 +0000 http://www.mythor.net/thebiggestloser/2008/03/27/trainer-michelle-bridges-suggests-bootcamp-style-workouts-for-schoolkids/#comment-4920 Heh, I wasn't even born in the mid-70s. I finally feel young, cheers! ;-) But yes, generally kids were just called hyper back then and the parents would blame the red cordial and so on. I think there's got to be a middle ground between the old ways and the new. Medication can undoubtedly help some children and some adults, but a little discipline never goes astray, either. Something that seems to have been left by the wayside in the last 20 years. Heh, I wasn’t even born in the mid-70s. I finally feel young, cheers! ;-)

But yes, generally kids were just called hyper back then and the parents would blame the red cordial and so on.
I think there’s got to be a middle ground between the old ways and the new. Medication can undoubtedly help some children and some adults, but a little discipline never goes astray, either. Something that seems to have been left by the wayside in the last 20 years.

]]> By: Jeff http://www.mythor.net/thebiggestloser/2008/03/27/trainer-michelle-bridges-suggests-bootcamp-style-workouts-for-schoolkids/comment-page-1/#comment-4916 Jeff Sat, 19 Apr 2008 05:39:47 +0000 http://www.mythor.net/thebiggestloser/2008/03/27/trainer-michelle-bridges-suggests-bootcamp-style-workouts-for-schoolkids/#comment-4916 I was kicking around the site and found this thread. I think Michelle is right on here. You must be around my age, because we were doing this kind of exercise a half hour a day, every day, in the mid-1970's. I'm from the U.S. I thought of a funny story involving kids and exercise from that time period. We had a kid in our class who was called "hyper". Now they have all these politically correct terms for it, like ADD, but back then kids like that were simply called "hyper". Today, they would pump him full of drugs, get him counseling, and put him in a special class. Here's how my teacher dealt with him in the 1970's: Whenever this kid would start to act up, usually by yelling, getting out of his seat, pulling the girls' hair, etc., the teacher would order him to go out and run around the school's perimeter. He would do this three to five times, or until he was too tired to run anymore. Sometimes the rest of us would stand at the window and cheer him on. I can tell you, when he came back in he'd be too tired to act up anymore. No drugs or other bullshit necessary, and the kid was pretty lean from all the exercise he did. Now I'm not one of those "good old days" type people, but that was one instance where a kid was handled better than he would be today. I was kicking around the site and found this thread. I think Michelle is right on here.
You must be around my age, because we were doing this kind of exercise a half hour a day, every day, in the mid-1970’s. I’m from the U.S.
I thought of a funny story involving kids and exercise from that time period. We had a kid in our class who was called “hyper”. Now they have all these politically correct terms for it, like ADD, but back then kids like that were simply called “hyper”. Today, they would pump him full of drugs, get him counseling, and put him in a special class. Here’s how my teacher dealt with him in the 1970’s:
Whenever this kid would start to act up, usually by yelling, getting out of his seat, pulling the girls’ hair, etc., the teacher would order him to go out and run around the school’s perimeter. He would do this three to five times, or until he was too tired to run anymore. Sometimes the rest of us would stand at the window and cheer him on. I can tell you, when he came back in he’d be too tired to act up anymore. No drugs or other bullshit necessary, and the kid was pretty lean from all the exercise he did. Now I’m not one of those “good old days” type people, but that was one instance where a kid was handled better than he would be today.

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