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To fat to toddle...
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zebrastripes
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I'll be watching it simply cause it's the best title ever 
i watched a bit of it. first 15 minutes/ then had to switch over!! GRRRRRR get those stupid thick brainless ******ed parents investigated by social services and chargedwith child abuse. Fook me a 5 year old weighing 6 stone and the mother stood watching her panting walking up the drive from school . MY GOD it makes my bloood boil!!!! 
BEHEAD THE PARENTS!!!!
BEHEAD THE PARENTS!!!!
I just cannot bring myself to watch those kinds of programmes. They are depressing. If obese because of bad diet and parents unable or not bothered about ensuring their kids are healthy then it makes me mad.
A medical condition (I have a friend with a child who has one) then its a different story, but if its the parents doing then I have no time for it.
I feel truly sorry for the children as their lives will probably be blighted by this forever more.
A medical condition (I have a friend with a child who has one) then its a different story, but if its the parents doing then I have no time for it.
I feel truly sorry for the children as their lives will probably be blighted by this forever more.
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Was it good? I ended up watching Age of Terror instead.
Switched over for about 2 seconds and saw some women trying to say her huge child had "slow metabolism"
When are they going to realsie that if they feed their kids crap, constantly, they WILL get fat?
Switched over for about 2 seconds and saw some women trying to say her huge child had "slow metabolism"
When are they going to realsie that if they feed their kids crap, constantly, they WILL get fat?
I thought it was really good and I usually despise these programmes. The guy was great at being blunt with the parents and all of them (apart from one dad) realised it was their fault, and made changes to their lifestyle. All the children had lost weight and the families seemed a lot happier.
I do disagree with the comment about parents not being bothered in relation to this programme. I dislike seeing parents feed their children junk but there was one girl on it that was so fat because her mum fed her portions that were too big. Apparently a rough guide to portion soizes is that it fits in the palm of your hand - therefore I have been giving my daughter more food then she needs. Luckily for me Seren will only eat till she is full, but I had been ignorant and could have ended up with a big child if I hadn't found this out. I have no family to ask, wasn't taught anyhting like portion sizes at school, and my HV never asked me the quantities she was eating when I was worried about whether she was eating enough. Ignorance isn't an excuse but its a good reason.
I do disagree with the comment about parents not being bothered in relation to this programme. I dislike seeing parents feed their children junk but there was one girl on it that was so fat because her mum fed her portions that were too big. Apparently a rough guide to portion soizes is that it fits in the palm of your hand - therefore I have been giving my daughter more food then she needs. Luckily for me Seren will only eat till she is full, but I had been ignorant and could have ended up with a big child if I hadn't found this out. I have no family to ask, wasn't taught anyhting like portion sizes at school, and my HV never asked me the quantities she was eating when I was worried about whether she was eating enough. Ignorance isn't an excuse but its a good reason.
I couldn't watch for the same reason, i have a REAL issue with parents that feed their kids crap and think its ok for them to be obese. It REALLY is the biggest pet hate of mine.
Don't these people realise that is not just their children's health their putting at risk, its their happiness too. I don't care how nice someone is, or how open minded people are supposed to be these days, children are cruel, and if you go to secondry school and are obese, you are very unlikely to be popular, and worse still you are very likely to be bullied. I know its wrong, and i would hate it if i thought my children were mean to someone based on their size but you know what kids are like (and some adults for that matter!), they will use anything out of the "norm" to ostracise other kids, i've seen it happen so many times!
I really have to bite my tongue when around other people! Take for instance a guy at work, he is lovely and i get on with him really well, but every time he talks about his kids' diets i want to shake him. He thikns it is perfectly reasonable for a 4 YEAR OLD to eat the following:
Breakfast: 3 weetabix, followed by a bowl of pasta with chilli sauce (full sized portion) and a rice pudding.
Lunch: cooked meal at school including hot pudding and then snacks they have sent her with.
After school snack: 2 sadnwiches or a bowl of noodles
Dinner: cooked meal followed by hot pudding.
Before bed: Bottle of hot milk.
Now i know that i have no right to judge, but to me, this is WAY too much for a 4 year old! Honestly, an adults portion of pasta for breakfast (AFTER the cereal i might add!). All those carbs can't be good. The thing that bothers me most is he is always on his high horse saying "my kids don't drink fizzy drinks" - but they eat enough for 2 people, and he is really proud of how much she can eat, thinking its like some kind of sport. He's even been called in to the school as she throws real tantrums if she can't get a second helping of the hot lunch.
Like i say, she is 4, and she is already wearing age 8 - 9 clothes (and she is NOT tall, so that's not the reason). I just feel sad for her.
Oh! I have just reallised this has become a HUGE rant, so sorry about that!
Sorry too if i have come across like i'm preaching, as i don't mean to at all, this subject just really gets my blood boiling!!
Don't these people realise that is not just their children's health their putting at risk, its their happiness too. I don't care how nice someone is, or how open minded people are supposed to be these days, children are cruel, and if you go to secondry school and are obese, you are very unlikely to be popular, and worse still you are very likely to be bullied. I know its wrong, and i would hate it if i thought my children were mean to someone based on their size but you know what kids are like (and some adults for that matter!), they will use anything out of the "norm" to ostracise other kids, i've seen it happen so many times!
I really have to bite my tongue when around other people! Take for instance a guy at work, he is lovely and i get on with him really well, but every time he talks about his kids' diets i want to shake him. He thikns it is perfectly reasonable for a 4 YEAR OLD to eat the following:
Breakfast: 3 weetabix, followed by a bowl of pasta with chilli sauce (full sized portion) and a rice pudding.
Lunch: cooked meal at school including hot pudding and then snacks they have sent her with.
After school snack: 2 sadnwiches or a bowl of noodles
Dinner: cooked meal followed by hot pudding.
Before bed: Bottle of hot milk.
Now i know that i have no right to judge, but to me, this is WAY too much for a 4 year old! Honestly, an adults portion of pasta for breakfast (AFTER the cereal i might add!). All those carbs can't be good. The thing that bothers me most is he is always on his high horse saying "my kids don't drink fizzy drinks" - but they eat enough for 2 people, and he is really proud of how much she can eat, thinking its like some kind of sport. He's even been called in to the school as she throws real tantrums if she can't get a second helping of the hot lunch.
Like i say, she is 4, and she is already wearing age 8 - 9 clothes (and she is NOT tall, so that's not the reason). I just feel sad for her.
Oh! I have just reallised this has become a HUGE rant, so sorry about that!
Sorry too if i have come across like i'm preaching, as i don't mean to at all, this subject just really gets my blood boiling!!
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I watched it and it enraged me - how can these parents do this to their kids? Don't they know the health risks associated with being obese?
Years ago it wasn't so rife because parents were not afraid to say no. I don't allow Paris to have free reign over food, it's just wrong.
Years ago it wasn't so rife because parents were not afraid to say no. I don't allow Paris to have free reign over food, it's just wrong.
i am a parent of an overweight child or he was, kieron didnt eat crap he just had larger than he should meals and like those parents said yes i should have been stronger with him but its very hard to say no and to me he was just my chubby little boy, i have learnt since though as he has had years of being bullied and i wont let hannah go through the same but sitting on your high horse saying what bad parents we are doesnt help and make u feel any better, what make me angry is that because its a weight issue everyone thinks they have a right to comment which wouldnt happen if a child was skinny 
Mary, you'd never know you went through that with Kieron, he's grown up so lovely. How lucky he wasn't one of the 80 or so % that stay big. 
Stanley's always been heavy for his age (although I think he weighs morethan he looks ifswim?) He eats very well and I try not to give him too much rubbish. He's always been my chubby-kneed boy but I am scared he'll be a big child. I agree it's hard to limit food to a hungry child, especially when his nanny gives him whole scotch eggs
The only comfort take at the moment is that Stanley never keeps still. He obviously needs the food for energy, if he continues to be an active child I hope that'll help. My heart broke for that poor little girl who got out of puff on her own driveway
Stanley's always been heavy for his age (although I think he weighs morethan he looks ifswim?) He eats very well and I try not to give him too much rubbish. He's always been my chubby-kneed boy but I am scared he'll be a big child. I agree it's hard to limit food to a hungry child, especially when his nanny gives him whole scotch eggs
The only comfort take at the moment is that Stanley never keeps still. He obviously needs the food for energy, if he continues to be an active child I hope that'll help. My heart broke for that poor little girl who got out of puff on her own driveway
Minxy said:I turned off too.
I worry that my Stanley will be fat, the whole thing scares me
do u over feed stanley?
those children were overfed - thats why they were fat. The 6 stone 3 year old or whatever age she was seemed to have one meal a day starting in the morning when she opened her eyes and ending when she closed her eyes to sleep at nighttime. ANd the parent allowed it!!!
This might just be in my case but when I was growing up at home and the same with my little brother. We would be given our food at breakfast and for school and for home and that was it. We would have cakes and stuff in the house but you darent ask for them or for a snack even a sandwich at the wrong time and mum would tell us we don't need it and we should go without.. Therefore to us food was such a bad thing.....tell a kid somethings bad...they want it more!
And so I used to sneak stuff up to my room to eat but not just enough to fill me up if I got hungry I would take LOADS.....and I ended up being big at about 15 I was 5foot tall and near hitting 11stone. Now I control my food and because I know when Im hungry now I am 9stone. But if I lived at home I still think I would have very bindge like eating habits.
My little brother was the same but he was much younger and much bigger than me! He was big when he was about 10-12 now his height has caught up with him but he still eats a hell of a lot but mum has became alot less strict with him and food. So Im starting to notice him relaxing about it.
I think and hope with Pip that she will know when to stop I certainly wont have her eating far too much and I do think that you are the adult and you control the amounts of food your child has. But I would never make it something that is a forbidden thing like it was for me because it did me no good what so ever. It the whole firm but fair thing.
And so I used to sneak stuff up to my room to eat but not just enough to fill me up if I got hungry I would take LOADS.....and I ended up being big at about 15 I was 5foot tall and near hitting 11stone. Now I control my food and because I know when Im hungry now I am 9stone. But if I lived at home I still think I would have very bindge like eating habits.
My little brother was the same but he was much younger and much bigger than me! He was big when he was about 10-12 now his height has caught up with him but he still eats a hell of a lot but mum has became alot less strict with him and food. So Im starting to notice him relaxing about it.
I think and hope with Pip that she will know when to stop I certainly wont have her eating far too much and I do think that you are the adult and you control the amounts of food your child has. But I would never make it something that is a forbidden thing like it was for me because it did me no good what so ever. It the whole firm but fair thing.
budge said:Minxy said:I turned off too.
I worry that my Stanley will be fat, the whole thing scares me
do u over feed stanley?
those children were overfed - thats why they were fat.
No, never knowingly. But I don't think some of these parents realised exactly what they were doing either.
We live in a world where we surrounded by food. I hope I would have the knowledge and common sense to keep Stanley slim but I don't believe there's guarantees.
If the figures something like 20% of children are overweight, I can't accept that 1 in 5 parents don't give a shit about wht they're feeding their children.
I know what you're saying, I just worry it's not so black and white. I'm a little overweight myself, it's easily done!
Minxy said:budge said:Minxy said:I turned off too.
I worry that my Stanley will be fat, the whole thing scares me
do u over feed stanley?
those children were overfed - thats why they were fat.
No, never knowingly. But I don't think some of these parents realised exactly what they were doing either.
We live in a world where we surrounded by food. I hope I would have the knowledge and common sense to keep Stanley slim but I don't believe there's guarantees.
If the figures something like 20% of children are overweight, I can't accept that 1 in 5 parents don't give a sh*t about wht they're feeding their children.
I know what you're saying, I just worry it's not so black and white. I'm a little overweight myself, it's easily done!
thats my worry too. Seren loves eating, in the morning its a constant asking for food "want an apple", "want some taost and butter and jam" (her current fave", "want a biscuit", "want an banana" etc etc etc. She runs round like a whirling dervish, and is tall and slim but she does like her food. I have no clue what is enough for her, whether its too little or too much. Today she had a bowl of cheerios, an apple, dinner at nursery which was chicken followed by a yoghurt. Got home and had three biscuits, then some toast and honey, then a cheese salad and a corn on the cob. In between the biscuits and her salad she stole 2 apples (has worked out a way of reaching the fruit bowl), one she ate and the other she took a bite out of then gave to the rabbit. One, its a nightmare knowing that everytime she asks for food and I say no, she will kick off - not an excuse but when I have Cally to deal with and Seren wants a box of raisons and I know I will get 5 mins peace then yes I will give them to her, and two, like I said before I have no idea how much she should be eating at her age. I rely on her to tell me when she is full up - and this is a bad thing to do according to that programme.
Yes there are those parents who bring their children up on a diet of chips, happy meals and deep fried marsbars but obesity is not the black and white issue some people think it is.
