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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In the same boat OP. We don’t withhold much of anything, they get a treat after dinner, and they have very low BMI. I don’t understand how children can become so overweight. It’s tragic and the parents should have to attend mandatory child nutrition classes.  [/quote]

I cook from scratch, don’t stock junk food but don’t withhold healthy food, have occasional treats, etc etc, and I have one 15th %ile kid who eats like a bird and one 90th %ile kid who will have thirds of chicken and rice and salad. It’s complicated. [/quote]

So…don’t give them so much food? What’s complicated? No one needs “thirds.”[/quote]

NP.  You are right, but a parent can only control a kid’s intake for so long.  Once they move into teen years, you can’t.  The best you can do is not buy processed junk and try to cook heathy meals.  But you cannot possibly police their serving sizes of everything, how many glasses of milk they have, if they make a PB&J after dinner bc they are still hungry or get a second helping later on, or grab a banana and several slices of cheddar.  Then there is all the junk food available and offered at school and sports in middle school.  You can feed them a heathy breakfast then they can also grab a free chocolate milk and poptart provided by school when they walk in.  They have to be able and willing to say no to the junk on their own accord.  If you have a kid that can’t say no to junk and have a tendacy to overeat, once they hit teens, the weight gain moves out of parent control and they need to start being accountable for what they are consuming [/quote]

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