Matthew Edlund, M.D., HuffingtonPost.com
Director, Center for Circadian Medicine and Author of THE POWER OF REST
Thumbs. They race across joysticks and pale glass surfaces, clicking and pulling so quickly you need a stop time camera to appreciate what they've done. They kick footballs, pilot spacecraft across millions of light years and explode the sharp-teethed jaws of flesh-eating aliens who would destroy Earth and every living thing on it.
And that's the only part of the kid that's moving.
Adults of all kinds, grandparents, aunts, cousins, mother-in-laws, teachers, come to me with the same complaint: the kids are inside all day. Why are they sitting in chairs glued down like a mollusk rather than playing in the sun? These same adults angrily tell me "the kids' parents should get up off their duff" and go outside to watch them, but they're "too damn lazy to move."
Director, Center for Circadian Medicine and Author of THE POWER OF REST
Thumbs. They race across joysticks and pale glass surfaces, clicking and pulling so quickly you need a stop time camera to appreciate what they've done. They kick footballs, pilot spacecraft across millions of light years and explode the sharp-teethed jaws of flesh-eating aliens who would destroy Earth and every living thing on it.
And that's the only part of the kid that's moving.
Adults of all kinds, grandparents, aunts, cousins, mother-in-laws, teachers, come to me with the same complaint: the kids are inside all day. Why are they sitting in chairs glued down like a mollusk rather than playing in the sun? These same adults angrily tell me "the kids' parents should get up off their duff" and go outside to watch them, but they're "too damn lazy to move."
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