KidFit Activity Tracker Wants to End Childhood Obesity

This is the saddest thing ever. Parents too busy or ignorant to have their kids motivated to go out and play rather than dumb themselves up with the Playstation will now have to rely to a crappy electronic device to get them on the go. Well done parents,congratulations for a job well done. I’m turning 41 today,what I clearly rembember about my childhood are constanlty bruised knees and helbows and none of my folks used to clean my bruises with anti bacterial BS things either. A quick rinse and out again jumping,climbing,falling,mud,water,trees . Uh…did I mention that I’m skinny too ?

And what about homemade meals with natural food ? Ah, yes, parents will have to keep their a** off the sofa and leave the TV remote… My three kids didn’t have any overweight problem. As said above, no TV, no Playstation, no PC, no soda and much sport. The only “downside” is you have to do your parent’s job.

Saddest thing ever? Sick? Really? Are you also telling the army of adults out there chasing Strava PRs/KOMs that using such an electronic “crutch” to motivate their activities is the saddest thing ever?

You are certainly welcome to believe that children do not “need” such devices, but I don’t see any harm in someone selling/marketing a relatively low cost technology that can be used to assist (not replace) parents in teaching fitness habits to children.

The marketing I see from the manufacturers just talks about encouraging healthy activity using the same sort of metric tracking that motivates many an adult cyclist to use items like Strava/GPS units/HRMs/etc. The mention of “fighting childhood obesity” seems to come from BikeRumor and not the manufacturer. If you believe that such devices for children are “kind of sick” and “the saddest thing ever”, at what age does it become OK to use metric trackers like Strava, FitBit or other such devices?

I’m not a fan of using “childhood obesity” to market a product. Just market the product on its merit without invoking such topics.

Sure, lots of people ride bikes for lots of different reasons. Some of them even use technological devices for motivation and enjoyment. We are all reading a website that showcases the latest $8000 bikes and $3000 wheels. No one needs that stuff to ride bikes for fun, transportation and fitness, but we visit this site anyway.

You may argue against the need for devices such as this (especially for children), but singling it as somehow worse than all the other frivolous (and far more costly) products on bikerumor seems pointless. I can’t agree with “all technology for kids is wrong”. There is always a balance to be struck and that balance is different for each parent and each child. I don’t see any problem in giving children and parents access to tools like this. Fighting against all technology is like shouting at the wind. It’s more useful to figure out how to make technology work for you. I’ll worry about what works for my kids and let other parents find what works for them.

“Saddest thing ever? Sick? Really? Are you also telling the army of adults out there chasing Strava PRs/KOMs that using such an electronic “crutch” to motivate their activities is the saddest thing ever?”

Yeah, pretty much.

a website designed to track your exercise activity is pathetic and power meters are dumb. this is solid commentary.

This comment section PROVES BR can post ANYTHING and the experts on here will tear it apart like they know it all….

I totally agree with G.S. it doesn’t matter what it is as long as it helps kids be healthy and active. I think this product is a great idea! Kids now days want something more than “just play outside” having this watch give you details on the kids activity would be very interesting for some kids who may be into numbers or health. Why the negativity????