If your kids are fat are you a bad parent?
 

I think so

yes unless there is a serious underlying condition that makes it almost impossible to keep the weight down. i think parents who dont work are also bad parents who show their kids the wrong example of lazy worklessness

No

Yes something goes wrong

If the parents are fat then it's probably genetic :shrug:

Just feed them less if they have a low metabolism, that's what I say.

I'm more disturbed by people who raise idiots.

Not a 'bad' parent but a bit irresponsible or careless maybe.

people are too scared to criticize chavvy parents for fera of retribution. theyre often bullies who give out criticism but cant take it back. happy to take the tax payers money though to subsidise their lazy lifestyles and no im not a daily mail reader just a student at the university of life

Peach it sister

I dunno, I put on a lot of weight when I was 10 years old out of nowhere, I'm not sure my parents even really know how it happened, I wouldn't say they were bad parents - neither of my brothers have ever been fat so I think it's a bit of a mystery to everyone :laugh:

So you had a slacking zone time
but you then went to back to being fit


Not the same as fat kids

As opposed to the right example of lazy worklessness?

I was 10 years old :umm2: I've no idea what I was doing in my spare time :laugh: I'm pretty sure I still did sports, I just gained weight really quickly out of the blue, but yeah to address the OP - I think if an entire family is fat, parents, all the kids, then yeah that's probably bad parenting; but if as in my case one of the kids is overweight but none of the rest of the family are then it's not really the same thing.

congratulations on your non contribution zzzzzzzz

My kids are like bean poles, does that mean we are bad parents because we don't feed them enough? Some kids are overweight due to genes, some are overweight due to comfort eating due to bullying, some are fat because their parents can't afford to/or have time to cook proper meals so live on chips/burgers/nuggets, there is a percentage of bad parenting involved but not all fat children have parents with poor parenting skills, anymore than all thin children have amazing parents.

Dragons prefer fat children so every cloud and all that

What a non contribution.

If your kids are fat chances are the parents are too........these KFC buckets don't eat themselves.

Could not have put it better.
I had a fat nephew, his mother is a fantastic mother perhaps a little OTT with the attention he was given as an only child.
Anyhow, he is now a rather fit, strapping Sub-mariner.


I was a very underweight child, and had the mother from hell.

no it wasnt it was a truthful contribution, you of course have contributed nothing and made it small ptty and personal. as usual. maybe youd like to mock my finding my long lost brothr again, thats about your standard

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Come back to me when you have formulated a proper reasoned response instead of using buzz words!

I think you mean you only listen to opinions that agree with yours. youve come to the wrong place. bringing up kids of greasy fat filed foods and endless take aways and unbalanced diets is abuse. you dont think so. I do. Im here to fight for the kids. you can dismiss kids health as buzz words, I find that flippancy disgusting

Another non contribution.

touche hypocrite.

That OP asked a question I answered it a little less hysterically than you, metabolism, life style, diet,genetics, medical problems all contribute to kids being overweight, but just because a child is overweight does not mean the parent is abusing them and if you think they are then by that logic my kids are abused as one of them is bordering on underweight for his age, should I force feed him to avoid the call from social services?

If he is unhealthily underweight then yes you should feed him more. Give the poor kid some Ben and Jerry's

We are as a nation getting bigger, there's no dressing it up really. I get around 3 pizza leaflets a day through the door, It's always annoyed me that in cafes the only kids option is battered offal.
If you feed your kid rubbish then yes I say you're not doing them any favours and are setting them up for a lifetime of medical problems.

:laugh: he puts away enough for two. At 15 I'm sure it will sort itself out, he is never ill and plays loads of sports so.

Yep, pretty much agree. What crap are these parents allowing kids to eat? Aren't these parents making sure the kids exercise?

your reply sounds ultra hysterical
glad to see youre defending lazy parenting instead of defending the health of the kids. social services should step in more.

Depends on the age of the kid IMO, along with medical reasons and such (though I suspect there are less people who have medical problems that some would like to make out..a hell of a lot of overweight people say 'thyroid problems' and such, while sat eating a cream cake)

Once they hit teen years, its a lot harder to regulate what they eat. But I cant help but judge when I see someone out with a couple of preschool kids who are like 10 stone.

:whistle: the OP never mentioned diet, he only mentioned fat kids and whether their parents abused them, you have decided to take to thread off topic and focus on those parents who only feed their kids junk, not my problem if you can't see the bigger picture.

Having said that though, we give Skye muffins and stuff on occasion, and she loves her quavers, so she does eat crap sometimes. I personally dont think junk food matters too much aslong as its not constant, and their main source of nutrition.

How many do you actually see though, maybe it is different up North and in Wales :laugh:

10 stone is a slight exaggeration, but I do see a LOT of large kids when out and about up here. They say though the poorer your area the fatter the residents (as junk food is so much cheaper than healthy stuff, which is very true from my experience)

Oddly enough, usually when I see really big kids, the parents (or whoever they are with..) are like twigs..not sure whats happening there :S

Nope

I have to say I don't see that many, in a class of 30 you might get 2 fat kids and even they aren't particularly fat, more like puppy fat, then you see these kids in their teens and they have slimmed right down. I see alot more overweight adults!