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[quote=Anonymous]OP here.

Thanks for all the actual, helpful comments.

I know he isn't a skinny kid, I am not, and neither is his father. We try to eat healthy (most of the time maybe once in a while we stop at McDonalds on the way to a vacation or have some other fast food joint), we encourage exorcise (he plays on a recreation soccer team and has fun playing basketball with his friends and kids in the neighborhood), all all the rest. I am an avid back packer and hope to start taking him on short trips in high school, and my husband played football all the way through college (DS never took to it though, I think DH is a bit miffed about that), so we know the importance of a healthy lifestyle, and try to provide one for him. That excess weight is not just fat, but he is actually pretty strong for his age and does have a layer of muscle. Yeah, he is a big kid and could probably lose a couple pounds of fat, but unless he actually wants to do that I don't feel like it is our (or his classmate's) job to tell him to.

Anyway, thanks for all the helpful advice. It is just kind of disheartening to come back here and see 4+ responses essentially telling me that my kids is fat and I should be doing something about it. He is a twelve year old kid, yeah he might go out and have a couple slices of pizza with some friends once and a while, he looks exactly like his dad did at that age, and his dad turned out to be fine.     [/quote]

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