Children's Health & Fitness ? The Gift Of Time May Help Childhood ...

June 18th, 2012 by Len Saunders

From The Herald Community?..

Can the government give us more time?

It certainly seems to be offering up every other possible thing, and spending a gargantuan amount of money in the process, in a bid to improve our children?s lives.

If you haven?t noticed all the media kerfuffle in recent months about the childhood obesity epidemic and the government?s $2-million pledge to fight it (gov.ns.ca/growinguphealthy), then you just haven?t been paying attention.

And at the end of May, the province released a discussion paper on early childhood development (novascotia.ca/earlyyears). Giving Children the Best Start outlines the many programs and family-focused initiatives that the government now funds.

While there are far too many of those to list here, the discussion paper tidily sums up the current state of family affairs in this province by stating: ?Leading up to this consultation staff identified more than 200 programs and services, and a provincial investment of about $100 million for the early years. Thousands of people are working hard in 200+ programs and services dedicated to supporting families and children.?

It then goes on to drop a most dismal reality bomb ? all of these many things, that cost so much money, are not working nearly well enough. Despite all the funding and programming, Nova Scotia is still ?lagging behind other provinces in providing a co-ordinated approach to deliver such programs,? the paper says.

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