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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At our elementary school, there are a good number of kids from food insecure families.  The school has a table where extra cafeteria food, chocolate milk, yogurts, etc. are placed and kids can take from it if they want.  The elementary school also serves free breakfast to all.  So, my son eats breakfast at home but is also offered breakfast at before care, breakfast in the classroom, and then extra food at lunch...  not to mention snacks in after care.  It feels like the only meal we can really control is dinner.  We could probably ask before care and aftercare to more closely monitor his intake, but I think too many food restrictions sets up even more unhealthy eating habits down the road.  [/quote]

Yes I agree with my son he's always hungry and if he's trying to get fatter then it doesn't matter to him what he eats - if it's there the he'll eat it. Pretty sure him and his friend eat as much as they can from the share table because they always seem to joke about it slyly then when I question they pretend they don't know. This makes it even harder for me to control his diet and is no doubt contributing to hiw much bigger he is actually getting now.

I agree and hope that it is a phase and that he would stop because he got bored or sick of it. However the fact that he's succeeding to get fatter is what's egging him on to continue, shown by when he found it hilarious that his shirt we bought in August no longer could get around his belly after Christmas holidays. So it seems that moving up a shirt or trouser size is like a new goal for him to get bigger and it really worries me. He is not a tall lad and his fat is really starting to show now and it's very embarrassing when I can see other parents judging me at things like when he goes swimming or buying him husky clothes in a size older than he is anyway.

He tried Pokemon go but wasn't really a fan which was a shame but likes lots of other games, nine of which unfortunately get him active.[/quote]

22:25 here and this sounds almost exactly like my son.  I'd wonder if we were talking about the same friend-set only I know DS's friend is quite a bit heavier than yours.  [/quote]

Well I guess it's nice to know I'm not the only one going through this. Is your sons friend the same age as mine (8) because maybe it's some sort of weird thing they like to do now. Is he also having similar symptoms like the fat belly and face as my son does. If so how are you coping with it and what are you doing about clothes for him because as he gets increasingly bigger clothes shopping is becoming such a nightmare although DS loves the process (getting measured etc). [/quote]

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