Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I have an 11 year old that cannot wear GAP kids XXL clothes because they are too small and XS, size 2 women's clothes are too big for her. GAP clothes run small. Old Navy run big. She is 5 ft tall and under 100 pounds. She is not a skinny kid, but she is not fat.
What makes me crazy about this thread is comparing it to the thread over in diet and exercise forum excoriating WW for creating an app to help kids as young at 8 learn how to eat healthy using an app and rules.
Parents cannot win. If their child is overwieght (and I am not opining on OP's child) they are at fault and should do something but that something better not be teaching your child how to eat healthy as that will give them lifelong weight problems.
What? Are you trying hand me downs that have shrunk a lot for the kids clothes? That I'd believe. But I am 5'6" / 120 and can fit into GAP kids XXLs... but not women's size 2 (at least not comfortably; I can physically get into a 2 typically).
Anonymous wrote:Good lord people. A girl in my daughter's 3rd grade class last year is about 5ft. 5, with a size 9.5 foot. She is not overweight in the least but has been handing down her 12-14 size clothing to DD.
Stop trying to label this kid and just help her mom buy some clothes.
Anonymous wrote:My 6 foot 4 inch 175 pound 18 year old son accidentally put on his younger brother's gym type shorts the other day because they have shorts that look so similar. Yes, by the end of the day, before figuring it out, he was complaining that they were a little snug, but they fit him! They were a size child XXL. There can't be that much difference in brands that an 8 year old wouldn't be able to fit into these shorts. I don't understand how it can be. Maybe the shorts were washed and shrunk a lot or something?
Anonymous wrote:I have an 11 year old that cannot wear GAP kids XXL clothes because they are too small and XS, size 2 women's clothes are too big for her. GAP clothes run small. Old Navy run big. She is 5 ft tall and under 100 pounds. She is not a skinny kid, but she is not fat.
What makes me crazy about this thread is comparing it to the thread over in diet and exercise forum excoriating WW for creating an app to help kids as young at 8 learn how to eat healthy using an app and rules.
Parents cannot win. If their child is overwieght (and I am not opining on OP's child) they are at fault and should do something but that something better not be teaching your child how to eat healthy as that will give them lifelong weight problems.
Anonymous wrote:Good lord people. A girl in my daughter's 3rd grade class last year is about 5ft. 5, with a size 9.5 foot. She is not overweight in the least but has been handing down her 12-14 size clothing to DD.
Stop trying to label this kid and just help her mom buy some clothes.
Anonymous wrote:I suppose you could cut off her feet to make her shorter. Lose a few pounds, too.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Good lord people. A girl in my daughter's 3rd grade class last year is about 5ft. 5, with a size 9.5 foot. She is not overweight in the least but has been handing down her 12-14 size clothing to DD.
Stop trying to label this kid and just help her mom buy some clothes.
Just because one girl is like this I want make it normal or healthy.
It certainly is for tall girls or for girls who grow and develop early. You need help.
Nope. An 8 yo that cannot fit in children’s clothes isn’t normal, no matter what you say!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Please stop. I was the size of a "grown woman" at 9. You do know "grown women" come in different sizes, right? I'm now 6 feet tall as a "grown woman" and was 5'10' by the time I was 12. Now I understand why all these older women were so mean to me when I was younger, so many people hate taller bigger women, sigh. Please lay off OP, she just wants to know where to buy clothes!
I would buy her women's and juniors sizes at Old Navy, Target, Kohl's, etc... Just have to be selective about styles so she won't read as much older, but they all have standard t-shirts, pants, shorts.
How old are your kids?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Good lord people. A girl in my daughter's 3rd grade class last year is about 5ft. 5, with a size 9.5 foot. She is not overweight in the least but has been handing down her 12-14 size clothing to DD.
Stop trying to label this kid and just help her mom buy some clothes.
Just because one girl is like this I want make it normal or healthy.
It certainly is for tall girls or for girls who grow and develop early. You need help.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Gap's website says size XXL fits kids 94-115 lbs. For an 8 year old, that's off the charts as is the classmate of a PP's daughter.
If the height is "off the charts" as well, I'm not sure what you want these tall girls to do -- binge/purge until the numbers are acceptable to you?
PP wrote about a 5'5" 3rd grader. You were complaining about 94-115 lb range. If this child were 100 lbs at that height, her BMI would be underweight at 16.6.