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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My one boy is a tiny stick, my other boy is average, and my girl is a bit chunky. They eat the same food. Not junk. Home cooked meals 80%.  Generics. [/quote]
They don't all eat the same amount of food. Clearly you see that.[/quote]

+1. There is no way these kids are eating ounce for ounce the same amount of food in a day. The same amount of snacks, the same amount of seconds, same portion sizes, etc. [/quote]

I’m curious about how this is supposed to play out, in your opinion. Is the parent supposed to limit portions/refuse seconds/feed different meals to the “chunky” kid? Allow snacks only for the skinny ones?

I’m envisioning a really healthy dynamic here.
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We refuse seconds of dessert all the time. “Can I have another ice cream cone?” “No.” Why should it be any different with baked ziti?[/quote]

So no seconds of baked ziti for anyone, or just the chunky ones? And does that go for the adults, or just kids? Guests?[/quote]

I see you are seriously concerned about the obesity epidemic...[/quote]

Trying to learn since some posters seem to have all the answers here….[/quote]

Feeding your kids into obesity because you don’t want to be mean or “unfair” is ALREADY an unhealthy dynamic.

I feed my youngest spoonfuls of peanut butter and nutella regularly because he needs to gain weight.  I don’t do this for my other children, because they don’t need several hundred extra calories over and above what they’re already getting.  I don’t tell them they can’t have nutella because they’re too fat (and FTR they’re not fat), I tell them the truth, which is that their brother gets extra food because he’s too skinny.  They have eyes, so the explanation makes sense.[/quote]

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