5 Dangerous Realities Adults Face with Obese & Latch-Key Children in America

5 Dangerous Realities

Adults Face with Obese & “Latch-Key” Children in

America

Areas Covered

• State of America’s youth, how times have changed

• The realities that could ruin a generation or progress it

• Some solutions everyone should know to succeed

• How you can be a step ahead of the curve

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Overweight/Obese Kids between 6 & 12 years

Overweight/Obese Kids between 6 & 12 years

America Can We Say “Epidemic!”

• Within the past three decades, the number of obese or overweight children between ages 6 & 12 has doubled

• Only 2% of these children within the 6 to 12 age group meet the recommended minimum number of daily servings from all 5 food groups

At this rate, over the next 30 years almost half of our youth will be overweight!

American Couch Potato

• 1 out of 3 is now considered obese or overweight in the U.S.

• More than 60 million Americans are considered “couch potatoes”

• 34% of which are between the ages of 6 and 34

Physically NOT FIT!• 8 to 18 year old adolescents

spend an average of 7.5 hours a day using entertainment media: TV, computers, video games, cell phones and movies

• Opportunities for recess and physical education are disappearing from urban schools and fewer than 1 in 3 teens get an adequate amount of regular physical activity

• Rates of participation in physical activity have declined in the past 30 years for both children and youth

How is Childhood Obesity defined?

• This is a condition where excess body fat negatively affects a child’s health or well-being

• In children, the prevalence of overweight (BMI 95th percentile, 30%) will nearly double by 2030.

• What are we doing to our youth?

What about the unsupervised child?

• Unsupervised children are children that regularly spend time alone or with a sibling younger than 13

• 3.3 million children between the ages of 6 & 12 regularly spend time without adult supervision

• 10% of all children between the ages of 6 & 12 use self-care as the primary child care arrangement

Parents admit to regularly leaving more than 4 million middle school kids under the age of 13 to care for themselves a few hours a week!!!

Kids with no place to go, go nowhere!

• As many as 15 million kids have no place to go afterschool

• Among them more than 1 million are in grades K – 5

• Only 8.4 million K – 12 children (15%) participate in afterschool programs

• An additional 18.5 million would participate if a quality program were available in their community

Let’s Face The Music….

Dangerous Reality #1:Juvenile Crime

Prime Time for Crime!

• On school days, the hours from 3 to 6pm are the peak hours for youth to:

• Commit crimes, • be victims of crime, • be in or cause a car crash

and • smoke, drink or use drugs

When the school bell rings, millions of children and teens are out on the street with neither constructive activities nor adult supervision, [as a result] violent juvenile crime suddenly soars.

Invest Now, No Crime Later…..

“It’s a lot cheaper to pay now for afterschool programs than to pay later to put a kid in jail” Gil Kerlikowske, Chief of Police, Seattle

One study found that every dollar invested in afterschool programs saves TAXPAYERS between $2.19 to $3.22

Dangerous Reality #2:Childhood Diabetes

What’s Your Type?

Type 2 Diabetes: What is it?

• Type 2 diabetes is a lifelong (chronic) disease in which there are high levels of sugar (glucose) in the blood. Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes.

• When you have type 2 diabetes, your fat, liver, and muscle cells do not respond correctly to insulin. This is called insulin resistance. As a result, blood sugar does not get into these cells to be stored for energy.

Type 2 Childhood Trend

• A child with Type 2 diabetes is able to produce insulin but the body doesn’t respond to it normally

• Type 2 diabetes is becoming increasingly common in kids & teens in the U.S.

• By 1999, type 2 diabetes accounted for up to 45% of new pediatric cases of diabetes

Dangerous Reality #3:Parental Stress

Mom’s move to the workforce…

• From 1970 to 2000, the overall maternal labor force participation rate rose from 38% to 68%

• The result includes increased rates of paid employment among mothers with children

• Out of this trend came the term “latch key” children (children supervising themselves afterschool until parents/adults comes home)

Nothing To Do, Greater Stress For Who?

• 87% of working mothers say the hours after school are when they are MOST concerned about their child’s safety

• More than one third (37.2%) of labor force consists of parents of minor children majority school-age

• U.S. Department of Labor report (1999) noted only 64% of full-time worker’s standard work schedule is covered by the hours children are typically at school

P.A.S.S. – Parental After School Stress

• Because of gap between the time school ends and the time most employed parents arrive home from work, large numbers of parents are concerned about child’s welfare

• On average, they miss 5 more days of work annually for a total of eight unplanned absences per year

My job wreaks of stress….

• Parents with high after-school stress are three times as likely as those without to report high levels of job disruption

• Parents with high PASS(parental after-school stress) are more frequently interrupted, distracted and drained of energy at work by non-work issues

• More frequently make errors, turn down requests to work extra hours and miss meetings and deadlines at work

Dangerous Reality #4:Teen Pregnancy

The mother of my grandchild is a TEEN!

The U.S. Leading the Way

• The U.S. continues to have one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the developed world and more than two times that of Canada & Sweden

• 1998 UNICEF study found that in women under age of 20, that the U.S. led the world with 494,357 births with Poland coming in second with 30,413 births

• What a standard to set?

Tiny Tots Having Tiny Tots• In 2011, 86 teens were either

pregnant or had given birth in the last year at Frayser High School in Memphis, TN which led to a campaign called “No Baby”

• Three quarters of a million teens between 15 & 19 become pregnant each year

• Teen mothers account for 11% of all births in U.S.

• Teens who are unsupervised during afterschool hours are 37% more likely to become teen parents

Dangerous Reality #5:Shorter Life Spans

Expect Life, Don’t Shorten It!• Obesity is shortening

average life spans by a greater rate than accidents, homicides and suicides combined

• Obesity is such that this generation of children could be the first basically in the history of the U.S. to live less healthful and shorter lives than their parents” Dr. David S. Ludwig, Director of the Obesity Program at Children’s Hospital Boston

• Eat Life, Live Longer…….

Obesity, Type 2 + 3 + 4 + 5

• Complication after complication will shorten our children’s lives

• Obesity has a negative effect on life span that could be greater than that caused by cancer or coronary heart disease

• The children of today could wind up living 2 to 5 years less than they normally would

Cradle to the Grave

If we don’t make obese rates go down, much of Generation Y could end up underground! 2 to 5 years sooner!

Solutions to the Music!

Need & Demand for Afterschool Programs

This is what a quality after-school program can provide our communities!

Not enough to go around…

• “BUT THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH PROGRAMS TO KEEP PACE WITH RISING NEED” according to the Afterschool Alliance

• In 2009, children not participating in afterschool programs was 18.5 million (38%) up from 15.3 million (30%) in 2004

• At this rate, by 2019 24% of America’s children will not be participating in afterschool programs

Kids with someplace to go, end up going places!

• 2011 Afterschool Alliance Report: “new progress reports find every state has room for improvement in making afterschool programs available to ALL KIDS WHO NEED THEM!”

• Testimonial: “Because of [the afterschool] program, I can stay at work and I can earn extra hours. I work 2 jobs, and that program allows my kids to stay in school while I get necessities taken care of.” Irma Villareal – Parent of two sons at Harms Elementary Afterschool Program in Detroit, MI

What’s a Quality Afterschool Program Look Like?

• They support and complement classroom learning by emphasizing social, emotional and PHYSICAL development

• They provide opportunities for informal learning

• They provide positive emotional climates without harsh, punitive controlling adult supervision

• They provide activities that support socialization with peers

• They include time for creative and PHYSICAL activities

LET’S BURN: What sport burns the most calories?

• Children need 60 minutes of play with moderate to vigorous activity every day to grow up to a healthy weight

• Over a half hour period tennis burns the most calories of these 10 fat burning activities

Tennis is the solution to the music America is facing!

Tennis: The Fastest Growing Sport in America

• Tennis maintains the top spot as the fastest growing traditional sport in America for the past decade, up 46% from 2000 2010. ‐

• Tennis’ retention rate for participant’s ages 6 17 is higher ‐than that of other traditional sports including baseball, basketball and soccer.

• There are an estimated 3.2 million tennis players ages 10 and under, up 18.5% from 2005

In 2009, tennis participation reached a new plateau!

The Power of Play: Why Tennis?

• People who participate in tennis three hours per week at a moderately vigorous intensity cut in half their risk of death from any cause.

• Tennis players scored higher in vigor, optimism and self-esteem while scoring lower in depression, anger, confusion, anxiety and tension than other athletes and non-athletes.

• Since tennis requires alertness and tactical thinking, it may generate new connections between nerves in the brain and promote a lifetime of continuing development of the brain.

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Yes It Can!

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A Quick Start to Change!

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10 & Under Tennis Components

With 10 & Under Tennis, schools and communities can reverse the obesity epidemic and turn the latch-key kid into the “Game-Set-Match” kid!

Founder/Mission Statement

Daisha T. Reed is the founder of Coach & Tennis. Our mission is to develop a success mindset & lifestyle in millions of youth through the game of tennis. • Proud supporter/partner of: Let’s Move Campaign Prevent Childhood Obesity Movement Afterschool Alliance & National Obesity Awareness Month - September

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