Compliment from my 5 year old.

[Anonymous]

I have cut my fast food and junk, and managed to loose 20 lbs in 2022 (186 to 166, I am 5'8). This morning, my Kindergartner said "wow mommy, you're looking more thin than you were before, especially in the middle!" It really made my day. We discuss body positivity so I know it wasn't coming from a bad place, just something she's noticed. I'm only 20 lbs heavier than I was in high school now. I've felt insecure about my weight in the past, but I haven't let her catch onto that hopefully. I don't have many friends or family in the area, so nobody else to really notice it. Thank you 5 year old, you gave me the motivation to continue on this healthier path!

[Anonymous]

OP herd: Meanwhile my 3 year old still points to my belly and says "big belly mama!" So I guess it evens it out lol

[Anonymous]

My son is more excited if he actually sees moving, like run faster than him. The faster, the more cheering. So much pressure, I tell you!

[Anonymous]

Why does your 5 yr old even know the word "thin"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why does your 5 yr old even know the word "thin"?

Yeah that part is screwed up. If my 5 year old walks in on me in the bathroom and I’m weighing myself, i just tell her I’m seeing how big and strong I am. I never comment on the number in front of her. I have never heard her comment on someone’s size.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does your 5 yr old even know the word "thin"?

Yeah that part is screwed up. If my 5 year old walks in on me in the bathroom and I’m weighing myself, i just tell her I’m seeing how big and strong I am. I never comment on the number in front of her. I have never heard her comment on someone’s size.

We read a lot. Plenty of books use the words fat and thin. Just last night we read the principal from the black lagoon which talks about the fat kids being used as paperweights and the thin kids being used as bookmarks. Maybe that wasn't the best book, I wasn't expecting that one. But I do think knowing the difference between thin and wide is important.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does your 5 yr old even know the word "thin"?

Yeah that part is screwed up. If my 5 year old walks in on me in the bathroom and I’m weighing myself, i just tell her I’m seeing how big and strong I am. I never comment on the number in front of her. I have never heard her comment on someone’s size.

I do the same. She doesn't know the scale correlates to fat and thin. She thinks it's like height.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does your 5 yr old even know the word "thin"?

Yeah that part is screwed up. If my 5 year old walks in on me in the bathroom and I’m weighing myself, i just tell her I’m seeing how big and strong I am. I never comment on the number in front of her. I have never heard her comment on someone’s size.

I do the same. She doesn't know the scale correlates to fat and thin. She thinks it's like height.

That being said, she can still see the difference on a person. She doesn't know a number comes with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does your 5 yr old even know the word "thin"?

Yeah that part is screwed up. If my 5 year old walks in on me in the bathroom and I’m weighing myself, i just tell her I’m seeing how big and strong I am. I never comment on the number in front of her. I have never heard her comment on someone’s size.

I do the same. She doesn't know the scale correlates to fat and thin. She thinks it's like height.

That being said, she can still see the difference on a person. She doesn't know a number comes with it.

These replies are from OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why does your 5 yr old even know the word "thin"?

Give me a freakin break. How to you describe tree trunks or string or anything? Are you going to shield your children from any word that might trigger a fat person? Jesus christ.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why does your 5 yr old even know the word "thin"?

How can a child who has a decent reading level NOT know the word? The word is just descriptive and doesn’t have a perjorative meaning. It’s just in the adult world that we have tied it to diets, body judgment, beauty, etc.

[Anonymous]

On the flip side, a few days ago my five year old saw an overweight man walking by and loudly said "Why does he have a huge stomach??" Totally caught me off guard. I chided and hushed him and said don't say that but he continue "but his stomach is so big!" I told him we don't say things like that about people because that's not nice. I was seriously blown away, he's never said anything like that before. Kids smh...

[Anonymous]

This thread is cringe

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does your 5 yr old even know the word "thin"?

How can a child who has a decent reading level NOT know the word? The word is just descriptive and doesn’t have a perjorative meaning. It’s just in the adult world that we have tied it to diets, body judgment, beauty, etc.

The child used the word to make a judgment about someone's body.

My kid knew what a thin spaghetti noodle was vs a thick tagliatelle noodle. They would never have thought to apply that word to a person in that way,

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does your 5 yr old even know the word "thin"?

Yeah that part is screwed up. If my 5 year old walks in on me in the bathroom and I’m weighing myself, i just tell her I’m seeing how big and strong I am. I never comment on the number in front of her. I have never heard her comment on someone’s size.

You have a scale in the bathroom for your kid to see. When your kid is old enough for what they laerned about weight to haunt the they will remember, and know what you were doing. Get rid of it, or at least keep it in a closet and have a little self control during the hours when your kid is awake. Or, lock the door.