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Originally Posted by Cherie
When children are weighed in school though it doesn't take much to send them over the "normal" weight centile, alot of these kids will have a growth spurt and the weight falls off and evens itself out, the pressure on kids to look a certain way is bad enough without people pointing accusatory fingers at parents. A friend of mine has 3 boys, 2 beanpoles and the eldest was a bit chubby which he was very self conscious about, he ate the same food as the rest of them so are his parents abusers? once he reached his mid teens the weight fell off naturally and he is what would be considered normal now. I know what you mean about 10 stoners, but that is what I would call obese, not chubby.
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I know this all too well. Gav got a letter about his daughter supposedly being overweight, theres literally nothing on her, shes tall and quite muscular, and this made her weigh more...
Infact I think I made a thread on here once about how schools are classing kids as overweight when they are fine. Gimme 2 secs
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http://www.thisisbigbrother.com/foru...light=children
Though in the past year, my experience of much larger children has changed. That may be because I started going out round here instead of in gateshead though
