Scary video of the day: Your kid is fat, you just don’t know it
Nicole McMullin
Oct 20, 2008
Elizabeth Cohen reports that parents may not know their kids are overweight. Takeaway point: Chubby 6 month old is cute, chubby 6 year old is not as cute.
This video follows a weekend with my mother who thinks that Sophia eats too much dairy and is too big. If it was up to Nana, as she calls herself, there would be no naps and no regular bedtime. My 13 month old would be constantly on the go so that her body never has a chance to develop a fat cell. She would drop in the floor and pass out from exhaustion. She would like celery. There would be no cheese.
Since that wasn’t an effective approach with me 32 years ago, I’m passing on the advice.
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Unfortunately, more demands at home and in the workplace don’t make it very user-friendly to make “home-cooked meals” from “real” food. And those growth charts were made using kids fromt he mid-west…huh? How is that representative of every child? Fad diets (like forsaking cheese or bread or whatever) are not the answer. Hard freaking work and extreme budgeting are, and who’s got the time? I’d like to challenge that lady at the Cooperative Extension NOW to prove that eating well can be cheap. And that lady on CNN…well, all I can say is, I don’t know how you do it. Maid? Cook? Thousands of dollars a year? I’m glad they can laugh about it. Give us some tips on how to eat as the working poor we are instead of the criticism next time. And also—let the feds know that cutting recess and P.E. out is not the answer to increasing instructional time to meet NCLB criteria. Sheesh—people. Make me wanna stress eat. ;o)
Beth of T-Town
Oct. 21, 2008 at 04:20 PM
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