And then there are some kids who are just different. My sister has four children - 3 lean, and 1 who has always been overweight. She has struggled with her weight all her life. In the early years (she is 21 now), every pediatrician said "don't mention it to her, she'll grow out of it" or "don't worry about it now" or "the worst thing you can do is put a child on a diet." This was a child who preferred fruit to candy naturally, so it wasn't simply due to bad snacking, for instance.
It was my sister's first child, and they were poorer then. Perhaps her inability to buy the best food choices did play into it.
If you ask my sister today, she would say that the one thing she'd do differently for that daughter would have been to lovingly, carefully tackle the weight problem when she was younger. She didn't "grow out of it." And while she'd never have put her daughter "on a diet," per se, she thinks that earlier instruction about food portions, exercise and weight might have helped more than they'd have hurt.
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And then there are some kids who are just different. My sister has four children - 3 lean, and 1 who has always been overweight. She has struggled with her weight all her life. In the early years (she is 21 now), every pediatrician said "don't mention it to her, she'll grow out of it" or "don't worry about it now" or "the worst thing you can do is put a child on a diet." This was a child who preferred fruit to candy naturally, so it wasn't simply due to bad snacking, for instance.
It was my sister's first child, and they were poorer then. Perhaps her inability to buy the best food choices did play into it.
If you ask my sister today, she would say that the one thing she'd do differently for that daughter would have been to lovingly, carefully tackle the weight problem when she was younger. She didn't "grow out of it." And while she'd never have put her daughter "on a diet," per se, she thinks that earlier instruction about food portions, exercise and weight might have helped more than they'd have hurt.
April 10, 2009 - 8:41amThis Comment
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