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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes. Many good reasons, mostly that you are setting your kid up to join the cultural obsession with weight.[/quote] I tend to agree with this. I developed an eating disorder early on because I wanted control over something in my life and food seemed to be the only avenue. It wasn't even about the weight at the beginning but it definitely lead to an obsession with weight & numbers (tracking calories, writing down everything I ate, weighing myself obsessively, counting the number of steps I took in a day, exercising out everything I ate) that lasted for a long time. No way I would buy my kid a fitbit because of my experience. But I also I recognize my problem wasn't with food, it was the unhealthy way I dealt with the stress (divorcing parents) at the time. Regardless, I'm not taking a chance and enabling any possibility my kids develop and unhealthy/obsessive relationship that could lead to an eating disorder.[/quote]
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