Slowing Down at Age 13?

by Teresa

A new study adds up the minutes that kids spend being active.  As kids get older, they spend less and less time being active.
And the results show that around age 13, kids are active for less than an hour a day.
Where does that childhood energy go?  (Some days, it almost seems as though my children don’t STOP being active!  My daughter even tries to “swim” in the bathtub in the evenings.) 
The drop in activity could be, partly, because kids at that age don’t have recess at school, anymore.
Of course, it could also be because they have more homework, or spend more time online, watching TV or playing video games.
I’ll have to try to remember this in about 10 years when my kids are teenagers.  I hope I’ll be able to find activities they like, that will keep them moving (this will be easier, I suppose, if they decide to play on a sports team or if it turns out that they love ballet or karate). 
Click here to read the article in the New York Times.