If kids these days got off their butts and went down the local creek catching skinks etc instead of playing xbox etc non stop they would probably not be as overweight as the average kid is these days and would now have a hobby keeping herps or birds or whatever else they found interesting while outside playing down the local creeks etc!!! ..........TO TRUE.... alot of my relo's kids are like that baby sat by the Xbox.. my kids are almost all adults now and as young ones ,they were never inside, it was murder on a wet day ,cause they wanted out... we travelled around aussie in a bus ,they got the best education with Aussie wildlife , they got to catch and observe many native reptiles ,mammals etc and loved the experience 3 years we were on the road ,and still to this day fortunatly they are not into sitting on their butts ,with a stupid playstation or Xbox addiction,not to say we dont own one nor to say its not ever played it is by our youngest boy ,but he hits it for a couple of hours a week and gets sick of it ,,would rather be out riding his motorbike in the forestry ,breaking his collarbone doing jumps ARRGH ..and my oldest son comes on call outs with me , my 2 girls love the out doors and love fishing so you need to start early introduce your kids to the great out doors and playstations are for wet rainy cold blowy days only
............oh I got into snakes as a kid after keeping lizards and turtles , my uncle caught a RBBS and put it in a huge coffee jar ,I loved it and wish'd it alive so many times ,had it for years but taking it out and wearing it around my wrist so many times ,it started to fall apart and mum threw it out ,besides the fact she hated me smelling like metho...
