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Old 09-17-2011, 06:46 AM
 
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The exercise thing -- he has gymnastics but it's only once a week, so we need to work on the activity level.
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Honestly for a high energy 5 year-old boy that's just not enough, and probably the source of both problems. My son was VERY high energy, and the absolute minimum physical exercise time was an hour a day, preferably more when we had time.
Totally agree. And exercise doesn't need to be an organized activity. 5 year olds need to be running, playing, riding bikes, digging ditches, climbing trees, etc.
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Old 09-18-2011, 02:12 AM
 
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I didn't know Aussies said "ain't".

You learn something new every day.
We have american TV


Ah I've just realised why he does not want to sleep. he does not want to miss a gazillion channels of must see TV.

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