Rec Center Adjusts Age Restriction in Anti-Obesity Effort

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The Bowling Green (Ohio) Parks and Recreation Department is changing its admission policy at the BG Community Center with the hope that allowing younger children to use the facility unattended by a guardian will encourage activity and help fight obesity.

According to WTOL, Toledo's CBS affiliate, the center's long-standing policy required children younger than 13 to be accompanied by an adult, but starting Wednesday, children as young as nine can be dropped off at the facility. Those children will need to sign in upon arrival and have emergency contact information on file at the front desk. Caregivers are still encouraged to join youths during visits and take advantage of the center's fitness offerings themselves, "but now parents will have the opportunity to tend to their busy lives of running errands, transporting siblings to various activities, and keeping up with the demands of running a household while dropping their children off in a warm, welcoming, safe, and healthy environment," according to a news release.

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