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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
It's ot necessarily lazy parenting but often there's an element of it being parents who don't know what else to do to make things run smoothly. Although it's often a factor - Parents of overweight children aren't always overweight themselves. My daughter went to a dance class where one of the girls, aged just 5, was full on morbidly obese. Her mum was really skinny. But she was constantly bribing / rewarding this girl with food, which is the other major cause of childhood obesity, and also a surefire way to set up bad food habits for life (food = reward = feel good).
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Yeah also if you give your child food to comfort them if they're upset as kidds or if they hurt themselves etc can make people emotional eaters which is a terrible habit to give you child