Kids Home Gym Set

Growing up, most of the other kids were not only "big" but were "cut" too. They were also familiar with lifting weights and knew how to lift and how much they could lift.

What percentage would you say had a weight set at their own home? Or do you think their parents just paid for a gym membership? Or do you think there was some nearby activity center for lifting weights like a local church, school, or fitness place?

i dont know of a percentage, but me and most of my freinds had at least free weights at their house. i have a full home gym that i use.

2008-06-06 14:45:36 by ASKALOT

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My oldest is a 12 yr old girl and the other is 8 yr old girl. My husband will not cancel going to the gym no matter what. I want to keep my self occupied so I don't have to bug him to come home. I do work out every morning to my slim 6 though, in case any one says "why don't you go with him". I have set my priorities and mine it's to spend time with my kids and clean the house, since I have a full time job. No, he hardly helps with the shores around the house if any one wants to ask.

If you are anything like me, like my family, we don't have much time to do anything during the week days after work. We do homework, have diner, take showers, get ready for the next day, read books, pray and go to bed by 9pm (my kids are very young so they have to go to bed early). This is how it is during summer too, because I have to wake up early no matter what (and they go to daycare so they have to wake up early too). But on weekends we play board games and watch movies on Fridays. We go out on Saturdays to the park (if I have money we to to amusement parks), shopping, birthday parties, visit family...we do many things and Sunday we go to church and lunch after that.

It depends on how much time and money you have.

I'm sorry that your husband doesn't have the same priorities as you...his lost!

2009-08-13 16:21:55 by It wasn't me!!!!

I will try to keep this short. It just hit me tonight that I may have discovered my dad's plan. I am 29 years old, work from home as a programmer, still live at home. I always wanted to move out, work hard and save money, but my dad always tried to scare off my girlfriends, convince me not to date them, and woke me up in the middle of the night so I would be tired at work.

So the thought occured to me that perhaps he did these things to keep me at home. We always hear how parents want their kids out of the house, but his setup is perfect. He is extremely dependent on others, he cannot do hardly do anything himself either due to stupidity, laziness, or both. So I basically do everything around the house, and he always comments how happy he is to have me as a free security guard, money lender, and servant basically.

Since I have been doing the grocery shopping lately, I realize that I only spend about $100 per month for my food. So all he does is pay my share of electricity, water, and food and he has himself a cheap servant.

It is extremely hard for me to work now, and I think it is because all of my life he has pushed me into staying home and not working. I wonder if this is common? I must admit when given the choice to live rent free and set your own schedule for everything, or work a 10+ hour job with an asshole boss M-T and can no longer have time to go to the gym, I rather stay home and work for the little money I make online.
My dad is divorced twice and all he does is sit at home and watch TV. So it isn't like he wants me to leave so he can have a social life like many parents who want their kids to leave.

Well its possible he needs the companionship and no-one better than his son. He must know you will not abandon him for he is your dad. Next. I am a Private Nurse if he can afford me I can Cook, clean, and keep him busy a few days so you can get a Life, especially seeing you said in your last note what a big C*** you had so I'm sure your missing out on the Best things to do in Life that are Free.. Either that or you could always find him a new Woman.. Ha ha Good Luck
P.S You could talk to him and let him know how you feel, Maybe you can tell him of all your inner feelings that are haunting you from your past experiences on how hes sheltered you in the past from him, until now.

2009-06-18 00:46:30 by Mr J Man

I live with my parents & 2 brothers we all work full time. Our next door neighbours have 3 kids, all under 5, the mum doesn't work which I understand as she has to take care of the kids, but the dad doesn't work either... I go home for lunch as i only live a 5min drive from home. And I get so annoyed when I go in the back garden and the dad is just sitting on a swing chair with a joint in one hand and a can of fosters in the other! why does he not work he has never worked either!, its not like he is disable because he is always on his 'out door gym' they have parties every weekend, how can they afford to do this? they garden has a trampoline, gym, kids swimming pool, swing set, & a swing chair, my family work hard everyday and we cant afford all of these luxuries.., so how do they do it?

Grrrrr that's my rant over ..., thanks for listening!

you don't know them, my mother always said perfect neighbours say hello and then mind their own business, why start trouble, live your life and leave them to theirs.

2009-05-27 04:37:12 by K*G

Afraid of home



Chapter 1
Home

When I walked out into the night, the dark sky surrounded me like the darkness of a movie theatre and the air was fresh and cool, a slight breeze flung my hair in front of my face, I slowly brushed the hair back into place, I was lost in thought, and no matter how hard I tried I couldn't stop thinking about my best friend and my violent mom. I should be over that feeling by now though, my step-mom has been like this for 5 years and will never stop.
I can tell you only little of my life, because yet, I’m only on the 15th chapter. It all started going bad when my dad died, my step-mom got depressed, never got over it, and took it out on me. Oh by the way I’m Abigail, but you can call me Abby. So where was I? Oh yeah, my step-mom ever since then she takes it out on me, but she just has to love my little sister Amy. Amy doesn’t seem to care, but its bad influence on her, I mean I don’t want her beating up her kids my step-mom Callie.
As I walk home in the cold snowy night, I thought I would call Josh, My best friend since like forever! We’ll just keep this secret to you and me…I have a major crush on him! Shhhh don’t tell him! We talked all the way home, I finally said ‘good bye’
As I walked into the door, Callie waiting just sitting there…
“Abby where the heck have you been!“
“Umm, I was at the movies, by myself, just me, no one else” I said in a scared way that you could probably tell.

Callie stood up…I was just wondering of what she was going to get…oh my gosh, she went to get nothing she came to hit me!
I thought about running, I would just get beaten up more then, so I pretended I was ok and let her do it. Red bruises and scars, I wish I had Josh, he would protect me.



Chapter 2
Late


In the morning I forgot to set my alarm, waking up at 7:45 I only had 10 minutes to get to school, so I thought I would take my time. Which I did I, got in the shower, washed my body and hair, when I got out, I just stood there, looking at all those bruises. What am I going to blame this on? I already blamed my sister. I got one, I fell down the stairs, not breaking any bones just bruises and scars.
When I finally reached school, I told the attendant I had a doc appt.
I walked down the hall rather slowly to gym, the only class I had with Josh. When I got in I started walking toward josh, tripping! He laughed I laughed, but it was me who got in trouble!
After school finally passes, Josh offered me to go to the movies with him, we where going to go see the most romantic movie ever!
After the movie, Josh and I went to sit on the bench,
‘Josh I need to tell you something’
‘Yeah what is it Abby?’
‘Ok here it goes.. Josh I..umm..have a crush on you’
‘Oh, Abby I don’t like you’
‘Oh I understand’
‘ I love you!’
I reached up to give josh a kiss.
Josh took me home, we kissed for a little bit, then I got out, But before I got out I said ‘ I love you’
He said it back
‘Good night josh’
“Good night Abby”
I slowly got out of the car…taking it slowly just imagining what Callie would do…
I could feel tears coming out, I felt like balling! I just wanted to run away and scream! I wanted to tell josh so bad, but I didn’t have the nerve, I couldn’t get it out.
‘You ok Abby?’ Josh asked me in a confused voice
‘I’m ok.”
‘Ok good, I love you, good night’
‘Love you to’
I watched him drive off in to that dark night, he finally disappeared.

I'm sorry, but this is terrible writing. You have no grasp of grammar, are continually changing tenses, and appear not to know how to use a spellchecker. This is definitely the right way to annoy me, because it's a common courtesy to check your work for spelling mistakes before posting it online. Furthermore, you randomly lapse into the character's chains of thoughts when you should be focusing on narrating consistently. This makes it seem extremely unprofessional and like somebody with an attention deficit disorder has written it.

Furthermore, this is unbelievably shallow. I don't care about the main character at all, you've given us no room for empathising with her or anything; she seems superficial and empty, despite her sad life, because of the way you've written her. You haven't shown the reader the plot, you've told us the plot (I mean about the main character's history), and that's the worst mistake a writer can make. Remember, show, don't tell. Look it up. And the worst bit was...'doc appt.' DOCT APT!? What the hell? You're writing a story here, that means you definitely can't put abbreviations in, you actually have to write full words out, capishe.

Sorry to be honest, but I'm not going to tell you something is fantastic when it isn't.

2009-02-26 13:27:11 by Shmexy_Beast