Letting Your Child Be Obese Is Child Abuse
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Last week the nation was shocked by news that the parents of an 11-year-old boy had been arrested on suspicion of neglect and child cruelty after allowing his weight to balloon to 15st. According to the NHS, the healthy weight range for his age and height, 5ft 1in, is from 6st 14lb to 9st 7lb.
Speaking on This Morning today, Tam Fry from the National Obesity Forum said that the onus is on parents to keep a child healthy, and that it was right to arrest the parents for abuse in such an extreme case.
‘I do think arresting the parents was right, though it is always difficult to say without knowing the details of a case,' said Mr Fry.
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I hate when people silently markdown a post/thread.
If I disagree with someone I at least tell them why I marked them down.
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I don't know how someone could disagree as if it were perfectly acceptable to allow your children to become this unhealthy. Sweden has some of the strictest child protective laws.
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Happy holidays everyone
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I am glad they are finished. That was a headache at the malls. Back to the topic at hand.
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This might seem like a shocking idea to some, but …. I wish there had been some kind of cultural, mainstream "values" sort of idea that encompassed childhood nutrition (where the parents legitimately had nutritional options) when I was growing up.
In the past, I suspect it wasn't something anyone needed to think about simply because the kind of calorie excess that it is common in modern life wasn't quite as possible. You simply fed your kids, made sure they were full, and you were a good parent. Times change.
Few people drop a jaw anymore at the idea of shaming parents who don't properly seat an infant up in a car anymore, for example. Once -- this was a new idea and people got very stubborn and nasty about the idea that they suddenly had to consider it part of their parental duties.
People who continually let your children eat a plate of chicken fingers, cheetos, candy ... whatever else at dinner time that you know they will eat with a minimum of argument .... I'm looking in your direction. Let them scream and squeel and throw tantrums instead, as you give them the one-and-only-option of the more balanced meal the rest of the family is eating. They will NOT let themselves starve. You may get a few unpleasant evenings out of it before you get the idea into their heads and they work it out of their systems.
My advise? DEAL AND SIT THROUGH IT UNTIL THEY START EATING THE VEGGIES.
