{"id":77,"date":"2009-07-21T21:23:31","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T02:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=77"},"modified":"2009-07-21T21:23:31","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T02:23:31","slug":"5-4-3-2-are-you-serious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2009\/20090721-77.htm","title":{"rendered":"5-4-3-2-Are you serious?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 5-4-3-2-1-GO!<\/a> project is a social marketing<\/a> campaign aimed at preventing childhood obesity by promoting healthy eating and physical activity. The five main messages of 5-4-3-2-1-GO! are:
\n5<\/b> servings of Fruits and Vegetables every day
\n4<\/b> servings of Water every day
\n3<\/b> servings of Low-Fat Dairy every day
\n2<\/b> or fewer hours of Screen Time every day
\n1<\/b> or more hours of Physical Activity every day.<\/p>\n

These are pretty simple, commonplace action steps for kids to take. That is, all of them but one–or more specifically “2”.<\/p>\n

Two or fewer hours of screen time means two or fewer hours spent in front of a TV, a computer, or a video game console of any type. It means being intentional with screen time. It means practically impossible.<\/p>\n

I’ve been going through the 5-4-3-2-1-GO! program with the kids from a couple of community centers, and sharing similar messages with kids at other schools. And I’ve never felt more hypocritical than when I’m sharing the “2” message.<\/p>\n

A quick review of my screen time today:<\/p>\n

0603-0646
\nWake up to music on computer, get ready for work with the computer as a backdrop<\/p>\n

0646-0700
\nCheck e-mail, do SparkPeople.com<\/a>,Score a couple MyPoints<\/a><\/p>\n

0728-0745
\nRead blogs while brushing teeth, short break to clean bathroom sink and toilet<\/p>\n

0800-1130
\nCheck e-mails at work, e-mail 5-4-3-2-1-Go! partners, adjust lesson plans for 5-4-3-2-1-Go!, read grant requirements, create 5-4-3-2-1-Go! blurb for church bulletins, check grades, brainstorm 5-4-3-2-1-Go! stuff (all on the computer)<\/p>\n

1225-1238
\nCheck e-mail again, turn off work computer<\/p>\n

1734-1814
\nDownload some scrapbook freebies<\/a>, look up some health related sites, catch up on home e-mail, catch up on blog reading (all while reading a flesh-and-blood\/made-of-paper book)<\/p>\n

1916-1934
\nRead blogs while changing into my swimming suit for a quick dip in the pool<\/p>\n

2103-Present
\nWriting my blog<\/p>\n

Which totals to 5.72 hours and counting. (And that’s excluding the computer being on while I was getting ready this morning.)<\/p>\n

And I was TRYING to be good today. After all, I only talked to 4 different groups today about limiting screen time. So I intentionally DIDN’T turn on the computer as soon as I got home from work.<\/p>\n

Now, why is so much screen time not a good idea?<\/p>\n

For starters, check out your posture right now. I’m guessing it probably isn’t good. I know mine isn’t. Then there’s the fact that you’re sitting like a lump instead of moving around burning energy. And did you know that you blink less frequently than normal when you’re sitting in front of a screen? This contributes to dry eyes. And since you’re focused on a screen always at the same distance from your face, you are more susceptible to eyestrain. Screen time is negatively correlated with sleep quality and academic achievement in children; and is positively correlated with body image issues, violence, anxiety, and fearfulness.<\/p>\n

So it’s definitely worthwhile to limit screen time. The question is, how?<\/p>\n

Do you have any ideas? I could sure use them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 5-4-3-2-1-GO! project is a social marketing campaign aimed at preventing childhood obesity by promoting healthy eating and physical activity. The five main messages of 5-4-3-2-1-GO! are: 5 servings of Fruits and Vegetables every day 4 servings of Water every day 3 servings of Low-Fat Dairy every day 2 or fewer hours of Screen Time … Read more 5-4-3-2-Are you serious?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[4,11],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}