Comments on: Weight Loss Culture May be Hurting Kids http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/weight-loss-culture-may-be-hurting-kids/ Exploring Healthy Psychotherapy Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:06:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Felicita http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/weight-loss-culture-may-be-hurting-kids/#comment-20887 Felicita Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:14:31 +0000 http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=3466#comment-20887 My son is 4.5 and calls his friend a pot. The kid is just chubby not fat. I think kids are more conscious than 10 years ago. That's a good and bad thing. Schools freak them out about fats so they dont eat anything which is not high fibre blah blah blah. Its good to be fit but not make it the obsession in life. My son is 4.5 and calls his friend a pot. The kid is just chubby not fat. I think kids are more conscious than 10 years ago. That’s a good and bad thing. Schools freak them out about fats so they dont eat anything which is not high fibre blah blah blah. Its good to be fit but not make it the obsession in life.

]]> By: Yolanda http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/weight-loss-culture-may-be-hurting-kids/#comment-20867 Yolanda Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:59:06 +0000 http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=3466#comment-20867 Well said Amy. I know I never thought about my weight at seven. Your daughter's lucky to have a mom with the right attitude to set her mind straight on that. Hey Marty! You're always such a ray of sunshine, you know that? LOL. Well said Amy. I know I never thought about my weight at seven. Your daughter’s lucky to have a mom with the right attitude to set her mind straight on that.

Hey Marty! You’re always such a ray of sunshine, you know that? LOL.

]]> By: Amy http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/weight-loss-culture-may-be-hurting-kids/#comment-20861 Amy Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:04:23 +0000 http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=3466#comment-20861 My daughter is seven and already she will make little comments here and there about her belly being big and things like that. She is seven! I never thought about things like that at her age yet I was not exposed to all of the anorexic movie stars that our kids are today! These celebs are who our kids look up to and they are making it harder and harder for parents to tell their kids that they are ok no matter what they look like. I think that there is a time and a place for being concerned about your child's weight but there is a right way to handle it and a wrong way. I do not want my daughter to be so weight obsessed that it ends up controlling her life in the way that I see it happening all around me to so many other females. Let's just get back to giving our kids a good old healthy dose of self esteem and let them live happy lives without always having to be so concerned with how they and others look. My daughter is seven and already she will make little comments here and there about her belly being big and things like that. She is seven! I never thought about things like that at her age yet I was not exposed to all of the anorexic movie stars that our kids are today! These celebs are who our kids look up to and they are making it harder and harder for parents to tell their kids that they are ok no matter what they look like. I think that there is a time and a place for being concerned about your child’s weight but there is a right way to handle it and a wrong way. I do not want my daughter to be so weight obsessed that it ends up controlling her life in the way that I see it happening all around me to so many other females. Let’s just get back to giving our kids a good old healthy dose of self esteem and let them live happy lives without always having to be so concerned with how they and others look.

]]> By: Marty http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/weight-loss-culture-may-be-hurting-kids/#comment-20859 Marty Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:37:43 +0000 http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=3466#comment-20859 How about we just call fat people fat and avoid the euphemisms. What's warped and unrealistic is giving flab a cutesy name. Political correctness makes me sick. If you're fat, you're fat. Deal with it and if you don't like being fat, do something about it. How about we just call fat people fat and avoid the euphemisms. What’s warped and unrealistic is giving flab a cutesy name. Political correctness makes me sick. If you’re fat, you’re fat. Deal with it and if you don’t like being fat, do something about it.

]]> By: Joanna http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/weight-loss-culture-may-be-hurting-kids/#comment-20856 Joanna Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:49:37 +0000 http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/?p=3466#comment-20856 My parents and my entire family is big made. I am not fat but I am pear shaped. I face so much in school and am teased no ends. Its sad but thin is always in. Noone looks beyond skin deep when you are a teenager. My parents and my entire family is big made. I am not fat but I am pear shaped. I face so much in school and am teased no ends. Its sad but thin is always in. Noone looks beyond skin deep when you are a teenager.

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