Give a kid a fitness tracker and life will become a dangerous competition

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Let kids be kids.

Surely we can find a better way to get kids to engage with exercise than slapping a monitor on their wrist

I’m not sure how many children were crying out ‘Mummy! Daddy! Please! I really want to be able to track the number of steps I take in a day!’ but alas, the gadget world never sleeps.AdvertisementKitting kids out with fitness trackers and encouraging them to view fitness through stats, data, numbers and targets is setting them up to see life as an endless competition.

And in the last seven years, the number of boys in hospital for eating disorders rose from 235 to 466.

 

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