(Non VW Rant. Run away!!)

What has the world come to when a young kid participates in an activity that promotes fitness and gets canned by the media?
(10 year old body builder).

We currently have a generation of kids and parents willing to let their kids sit on their butts all weekend playing xbox and eating potato chips and no one says boo?
Public liability and vandalism has put an end to most playground equipment that people of my age would have used as kids at local parks.
And to top it off, it's morally acceptable for a parent to let their pre pubescant child pose nude in the name of art???? WTF!

Are there any parents out there who agree or have the wheels finally fallen off my wagen???
- Adam

Agree totaly, heard this on the radio this morning and thought it was some sort of joke, bloody stupid if you ask me, let the kid get on with it I say.

weight lifting and that sort of thing especially pre-pubescent can do serious damage, can completely change body growth, stunt growth, I believe you will find most young athletes are very careful about this sort of thing.

Reckon it won't do as much damage as siting on ya arse chomping tater chips.

I agree that the use of weights should be limited at a young age but jeez.... contact sports put you at risk of injury also.
I even know of instances where kids have broken bones from riding a bike (er..falling off one).
You can't wrap them up in cotton wool and expect them to have all the worldly knowlege of actions vs consequenses.
So long as their outside running and being active their not turning into couch potatoes.

do not shuffle quickly with those safety scissors nigel !
political correct bullshit.........nature culls the dumb ones. Let it do its job.

take them off the weights and send them out the back to play on the trampoline anybody ever working in or admitted to ..the fracture ward knows the dangers of the seemingly harmless old tramp

the latter (exploitation of children) just makes me sick saying that id love to see an artistic piece of ppl who appreciate this type of "art" in a peice entitled "sick bas%$rds jailed for life n tortured daily) now thats art!!!!