Reply #99: My kids aren't fat & it's not hard [View All]

[JNelson6563]

First of all I don't feed them crap and I only allow them so much "screen time" (computers and TV) before it's turned off and they have to find something else to do.

I send lunch to school with my kids. I don't obsess at all about keeping them active. Through 6th grade they had gym and recess. In the winter there is snow to shovel, in the summer there is yard work to do. So even if they don't "play" outside there are always tasks they can help with.

We are not rich and for several years, early in my kids' lives, we were pretty darn poor. During those years I couldn't afford to feed them in a way where they'd be fat, just didn't have the grocery money. Processed foods, fast food, all that stuff is much more expensive. Oh and I worked full time for most of the years my kids have been alive so it's not like I had buckets of time to be a super mom or anything.

Too many excuses for this form of child abuse/neglect, not enough honesty.

Julie