Are your children fat? Why are they fat?

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If there are fat children, the responsibility lies with the parents.

My son eats what he wants and he gets a mc donalds once a week, He is as thin as a lat though as he gets mountains of exercise

krudler wrote: »

They're not fat they're kidnap resistant.

Tell me about it. Have to get a twin wheel Scania with the forklift on the back now:pac:

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Children these days don't know what a day's hashing in the bog or the purdie field is.

Wouldn't let anyone that uses them phrases near my Children

when i was a kid everyone was out running around after a football or playing chase on the road. now a days its xbox and playstation. they play virtual football with there fingers its called fifa : ) getting fat on the sofa eating crisps drinking coke and its all there parents fault. if your kids dont like sport simply bring them for walks to the beach forest or park. most fat kids are the result of lazy parents

conorh91 wrote: »

That's great. But even where kids are active a lot, there comes an age where they need to be aware of responsible dieting. There comes an age when exercising all day long is not an option anymore. If kids don't get educated in responsible food intake, what will happen when they get older and need to sit at desks and in traffic for 50 hours per week?

Not trying to personalize it to you, as I'm sure you're a great responsible parent. Just making a point about some who take the attitude of 'they'll work it off, I'm not concerned".

Oh I know that, he eats very well but we allow him one treat a week, he is a fecker for baby stem broccoli and pink lady apples. he is just coming up on 3 so I intend to get him involved with the cooking very soon

I only let the kids have junk once a week, saturday is treat day but even at that I'll make it all from scratch. I make most of our food myself and we are vegetarian so that might help. I don't keep sweets etc in the house cause if they aren't there they can't have them. Pester power is hard to resist so myself or himself will do the shopping alone. Portions are important too, a lot of kids do eat pretty well just too much of it.

Shenshen wrote: »

I never got any when I was growing up (seriously!) and I'm still fat

Well you don't have to have McDs to eat bad. My parents had a deep fat fryer! ugh. Everything went in it

The OP seems to be looking for parents to come into this thread, see his question and voluntarily offer themselves up as sacrificial lambs to the slaughter.

“Duh, yeah my kidz is all fat coz I’ feed them whatevers they like. I’m not gonna let me baby go hungry etc.”

If we were to go by that select group that is parents on boards.ie it would seem that all the kids in Ireland are health conscious whippets who love broccoli, getting lots of exercise and only take one treat per week. It’s a pity reality, and the numbers that go with it, don’t back this up.

The reality is there are a lot of fat kids about these days. People are quick to point out how it’s all the fault of the parents but that doesn’t really achieve much apart from make them feel better about their own parenting skills.

So, let’s concede the point. Some kids are fat and some parents don’t give a **** about it. The parents might rightly be lambasted but it’s hardly the kids fault is it? So what’s the solution? We can all congregate on boards.ie feeling smug or maybe, as a society, we could accept some form of programme designed at reducing these fat kids’ plight? Of course many of the self-righteous boasters on here would baulk at any effort to help out those less fortunate kids who don’t have responsible parents as the only real options are likely to involve either taxing junk food or restricting access to it and advertising of it.