Reply to Noticing very chunky young kids

Forum Index » General Parenting Discussion

Reply to "Noticing very chunky young kids "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]Kids are bigger nowadays, it is true. I don’t think it makes sense to pretend not to see differences. For me, I think all kids are beautiful, wonderful, and skilled in their own ways and I absolutely do not judge kids or their parents for their body types, big or small. The shame needs to come out of the equation for all of us to be healthier. All of us need to work on appreciating the kids in our community. I don’t like all the assumptions that kids are unhappy, unhealthy, etc. You can be overweight and active, happy, etc — and it sure helps if grown adults aren’t giving you sideyeye while you eat the same treat as every other kid.

On a population level I think we should be looking at what is changing our bodies and why. This is part of fulfilling our responsibility to protect and safeguard kids. Love them as they are, while questioning whether the regulations and status quo in this country are good enough. I don’t know a lot of people who are politically active when it comes to things like food, cosmetic and personal products, environmental pollutants, pharmaceutical regulations, etc. But it’s all playing a huge defining role in our lives while we sit and argue about “individual decisions”

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics