Word: couchful
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...deal with when the only weight problems they had to think about were their own. How do you effectively control another person's eating behavior? How do you motivate someone--especially a young, impulsive, pleasure-driven someone--to make smart food choices, to get up off the couch, to turn off the television? And how do you accomplish that without making that young person feel deprived, coerced or--worse yet--judged and found wanting? Perhaps most vexing for parents who are themselves veterans of weight-loss wars, how do you credibly persuade a child to take hold of an issue...
Those behaviors should be positive. Maybe your son tends to scarf his food; rather than criticize him, get him to scarf fruits and vegetables instead. Maybe your daughter spends too much time on the couch; rather than scold her for it, applaud when she gets some physical activity. The reward of your approval may be enough to encourage her to seek more...
...Spin Your Wheels Forget the car and locomote by other means. Get kids rolling on bikes, scooters, Rollerblades or skateboards. Need a birthday idea? A new set of wheels can be the perfect way to lure kids off the couch...
...both, then followed the onscreen prompts. I watched video by logging into my Netflix account (you'll need one) and adding movies and TV seasons to my "instant" queue. The queue shows up on the Roku box in mere seconds. To test the gadget, I moldered on the couch in my office for a few days, watching The Office reruns, some old Kubrick and Peckinpah movies and a Jimi Hendrix documentary. It was great...
...talk-show hosts. Johnny Carson, whose topical wisecracks helped define the national mood in the 1970s and '80s, played it strictly down the middle and made sure nothing cut too deep; after all, you never know which butt of your jokes might show up one night on the guest couch. In truth, relatively few of the era's political leaders appeared on Carson's show: not Jimmy Carter, or Gerald Ford, or even Ronald Reagan after he became a presidential candidate. One exception was a young Arkansas governor named Bill Clinton, who came on a few days after his windy...