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[quote=Anonymous]I cannot believe the posters who are in Systane that it is necessary that we teach young children that fat people are morally repugnant because they eat junk food.  Because that is the message a young child hears when you tell them that it is okay to make judgments about an obese person.  And it is laughable that people are drawing lines between someone who is overweight and someone who is obese in this situation.   We are talking about the impression on a three-year-old. That child is not going to be able to differentiate between someone who is a little bit overweight or very obese.  What they are going to note is that the grownups around them think that fat people are bad and that it is important never to be fat.

The reality is that a child asked his or her caregiver why someone had a body type that is outside of typical norms.  Instead of using that moments to teach manners ("we do not discuss other peoples bodies.") or to teach acceptance for all people ("there are a lot of different kinds of bodies.") The caregiver decided that this moment, which was only about physical appearance, should somehow be directly tied in the child's mind to eating habits.  This is exactly the type of attitude that gives young girls eating disorders.

I want my kids to eat healthy, but I want them to do it because they want their bodies to be strong and healthy. I do not want them to eat healthy because they are worried about their weight.  The reality is that you cannot look at someone and know whether they are healthy or not, how healthy they are, or how they got to that place.  But even if you could, teaching a young child that they better watch what they eat so they don't turn into a fat person is an extremely unhealthy attitude to instill.  And if you actually care about your children or the children you are nannying for, then you would be invested in them believing themselves to be valuable worthy and lovely people regardless of how they look.[/quote]

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