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[quote=Anonymous][quote]What I fear is that my son will say something inadvertent, not that he will say something purposefully mean (like calling someone "fat and ugly.") Let's say he gets made fun of in the lunch room for eating vegetables and hummus instead of potato chips, and when asked why he eats those things he says he's eating that way so that he does not become fat.[/quote]

OP, you're projecting your own feelings about fat and nutrition onto your son.  The reason he is eating veggies and hummus is because 1) it's healthy. 2) its tasty or 3) his mom made him.If he says "so I don't get fat," that is entirely your fault and problem. most children will not equate eating healthy food with 'not getting fat' unless one of their parents is obsessed with weight. Why should 'fat' even come into it at this age? I tell my kids that we need all different colors and kinds of foods to keep us healthy and that a lot of sugar is not healthy for us. I never use the word fat, at this age. Look on the website for revolution foods, aimed at kids. There are all kinds of ways of talking about healthy food without bringing someone's weight into it. You can talk about vitamins, you can talk about processed versus unprocessed, you can talk about where food comes from and what is done to it, all of this can go a long way toward explaining food choices without bringing weight, looks, shame, bullying into it. [/quote]

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