Kid Health Experts Attack Video Game Summer Camp

Posted by Soulskill on Friday April 30, 2010 @10:16AM from the friendly-environment-to-frag-noobs dept.

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?"

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Couch Potato Camp by strangeattraction · 2010-04-30 10:59 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I guess they would be against my Couch Potato Camp also. A shame since the kids love it and Coke and Frito Lay provide all the snacks for free. This keeps my cost down and allows me to accept children with special needs such as diabetes. I suppose they'll want the gov't to step in and regulate this like so many other intrusive measures. McD's also supplies us with Happy Meals which goes over especially well for Violent Movie Mondays where the kids veg for hours in happy bless. What is the world coming too?