Kids over weight?????????????????/?

Question

their this little girl i baby sit shes 12 270 pounds and her mother is over weight and she lets her get this big she is a little kid in the future she will have trouble lossing this weight whats wrong with parents now a days dont they care about kids health

Answer 1

My son is 12 and a little overweight.  It is bad to encourage "dieting" at younger ages.  I let my son walk home from school and encourage him to play sports..I also try to keep junk food out of the house.  The mother probably feels guilty about having her daughter eat right and exercise if she doesn't.

Answer 2

The problem here is that the mother doesn't know any better how to lose weight than the child.  You almost always see obese children of obese parents.  The parents buy junk to eat, they don't do anything other than sit in front of the tv and so the child never learns proper eating, nor how to be active.

It is a sucky situation, I know from personal experience.  My step dad loved junk and fried foods.  My mother was overweight but unhappy about her weight.  So every diet that came down the line, not only did she try it, but she put me on it too.  Thanks to my mother I yo-yo dieted for as far back as I can remember.  I never had a chance.  We lost weight until she hit a plateau, then gave up.  We returned to the original eating habits, put on the weight plus more.  I would probably had been fine if not for the constant yo-yo dieting.

If you really want to help her, you need to educate her.  I'd suggest you get her two books.  Ultra-metabolism by Dr. Mark Hyman and Body for Life by Bill Phillips.  The first will teach her what to eat and why, the second will teach her how to exercise.  At the very least you've given her the tools, she still has to implement them, even if that means she has to wait until she leaves that environment.  Maybe she could convince her mother to buy healthy food and get active with her.

Best of Luck.  Thanks for caring.

Answer 3

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