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[quote=Anonymous]The PP with the kid who is in the 5th percentile lecturing the OP is hilarious.  If your kid is teeny tiny, of course other kids are going to look/sound huge to you.

I volunteer at my son's school every week, and there's a rising 3rd grade girl who is exactly my height.  There are kids in the same grade that look like kindergartners.  They are all healthy and fine.  Newsflash - people come in different sizes.  This is particularly true someplace like the US, where folks come from all over, so people from tall ethnic groups are in the same classes as those from groups where it is typical for adults to top out at 5'3.

But, back to OP.  OP has demonstrated that she has unrealistic expectations for her son's eating habits (10 chicken wings isn't THAT much, nor is $18 at a food court as a special occasion).

Basically, the food court letter let us know how tightly you control his eating at home and how much you worry about him eating like his peers.  The camp letter is the natural outcome of what we learned in the food court letter - which is that this is not a kid who has learned to make healthy choices by having a variety of foods (including sub-optimal ones) available to him.

Get help, OP.  You need to talk to someone about your own anxieties and how they are playing out on your son.

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