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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For other parents of 10 - 13 year old boys, are you really finding that if you let your kids snack, they don't come to meals hungry?

This was a concern for me when my kids were little, but honestly, I think that my 10 and 13 year olds could eat an entire meal at 6 p.m. and if I served a second meal at 7:00 they'd eat just the same. 
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Most 13-year-olds, boys in particular, can eat a horse and then eat a cow 2 hours later. We have rail frail wasps here projecting their own food issues onto their kids. It comes out of fear that another wasp frail friend might comment that her kid "gasp" might have pudged up! (read, his collar bone is not protruding like he just left drug addiction program) Then, we get a post wondering why her kid gained a few and is no longer 70lbs at 13 years old! And how to get him to lose a bit of a belly!
Yes, we really have posts like that stating that a kid has man boobs and is not even 90lbs![/quote]
I don’t see a lot of posts like that.  Find and paste three threads within 6 months that are like this and I’ll admit you are right.  I have tween boys ( one is athletic but neither are overweight) and they absolutely can eat a lot of junk and then not be hungry for dinner. So I think you are generalizing and making stuff up. [/quote]
As many posts as we have about "my kid is just big boned" we have some parents who are ocd the other way. No time to look for all, but here is a recent one. 
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/929825.page
[i]My son Gained 20 lbs last month. He's 13, 4'7 and was 70 pounds. Now he is 91. He is at a normal weight still, but is this normal? I noticed a lot of junk food wrappers in his garbage can which I didn't buy. Should I worry? Should I watch his diet? He stopped gaining weight. Now he is chubby and has a pot belly and moobs. He also grew out of a lot of his old clothes and is wearing a Husky Size in pants for his height when i took him shopping last week. I didn't say anything, because he is still at a normal weight, and as i said, he stopped putting on weight. What happened, though? [/i] [/quote]

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