Confessions on Yik Yak | I hate that it’s taboo to tell a parent they’re doing a shitty job. Your kids shouldn’t be fat Your kids should have good hygiene Your kids should have manners Your kids should behave at school This is a parental problem. Quit giving kids ipads. Parent

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I hate that it’s taboo to tell a parent they’re doing a shitty job. Your kids shouldn’t be fat Your kids should have good hygiene Your kids should have manners Your kids should behave at school This is a parental problem. Quit giving kids ipads. Parent

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Anonymous 1w

A bit, okay maybe completely, unrelated, but it’s also a school admin problem for bending over backwards for parents and not defending teachers

Anonymous 1w

What about baby fat? My family is generic for baby fat but after puberty it goes away, but we were all fat little boys LMAO.

Anonymous 1w

I would like to add a little to this, your kid shouldn’t be obese. Then shouldn’t be fat after the age of somewhere like 10, just because I know as a kid how much I fluctuated in weight up until that point so I can see how you can have a larger child but once their metabolism levels out that’s when they should not be fat.

Anonymous 1w

There are way too many factors outside a parent’s control that could contribute to these things for anyone to blindly assign blame

Anonymous 1w

As someone who’s fat, I saw it as a choice between fat or raging alcoholic and figured fat was the lesser of the evils. Not saying it’s right, just saying sometimes there are bigger battles to be won.

Anonymous 1w

Fucking a right man.

Anonymous 1w

iPads wouldn’t be the full issue by itself but a lot of parenting can lead to this. Also fat is incredibly objective. I was considered obese in middle school because I weighed 165 and 4’10. I had terrible self confidence but looking back on the picture I looked normal? I think I work a size 12-14. I had barely any pudge. Most of the weight came from my developed chest, and muscles from farm work but that doesn’t matter in terms of BMI

Anonymous 1w

Heavy on the first one. As a parent, your job is to teach your kid how to have a healthy relationship with food

Anonymous 1w

I don’t think you understand for some people if they have one meal they gain a lot of weight….

Anonymous 1w

and parents will see this behavior and somehow justify their child’s behavior and refuse to take accountability

Anonymous 1w

i told my mom this then now i haven’t spoken to her in 3 years

Anonymous 1w

and they shouldn't not be fat because they're just insecure and have/are getting an ED. they should know when to eat and not to eat, they should have the option to go walk or play outside regularly, and ideally they should be fed nutritiously

Anonymous 1w

It’s unfortunately too late for so many

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Anonymous

#2 1w

(When it comes to behavioral issues)

Anonymous

#8 1w

Besides, studies consistently show that shame is not an effective tool for change. If we really care about these issues, we should be looking into proactive measures on a societal level to try to reduce them

Anonymous 1w

My fault og, no need to downvote 🙌🏽

Anonymous

#15 1w

165 at 4’10 is in fact obese idk what you want me to tell you💀

Anonymous

#13 1w

It suck’s bcs you don’t need alcohol to live but food is a necessity and this country makes it so much more unhealthier and addictive

Anonymous

#11 1w

A lot of parents don’t have that themselves and can’t say no to their kids

Anonymous

OP 1w

Yall can downvote me all you want but I would not describe a girl with this body as obese. The military doesn’t even use BMI. They use Body Fat % using measurements. Not weight.

Anonymous

#15 1w

These girls are amazing fuck anyone who says otherwise.

Anonymous

#1 1w

lol those are all the same girl. 4’11 at 165-185lbs

Anonymous

#1 1w

I’m sure she is amazing, however a 4’10 12 year old should not weigh 165. That causes strain on joints that already have growing stress on them

Anonymous

#8 1w

Societal shame🤓

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Anonymous

OP 1w

I was 13-14 due to starting school late but also, as you can see, my body size was completely normal despite the weight number. I had an average diet and did farm work. I was not lazy nor eating junk. It is just how my body was. Muscle weighs more than fat. And yk what farm work gives you? MUSCLE. The BMI scale is terrible and inaccurate to actual bodies that are complicated. It’s archaic.

Anonymous

OP 1w

BMI would have you believe I was bordering MORBIDLY obese. I definitely was not.

Anonymous

#15 1w

okay so you’re basing a load of obese children’s identities on your singular experience…

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Anonymous 1w

Overweight sure. But weight fluctuates a lot during adolescence. Again, BMI would’ve had me labeled as bordering morbidly obese, which is obviously inaccurate. But slightly overweight is drastically different than obesity.

Anonymous

#10 1w

There are numerous upon numerous videos on the internet that talk about inaccuracies of BMI. Especially with children (girls more so) whose hormonal changes causes crazy weight fluctuations. And plenty of women have issues with BMI if they have larger chests. My tits alone weigh close to ten pounds. Women are CURVY. Kids are hormonal. Weight is not an accurate representation of people’s bodies. Period

Anonymous 1w

There are plenty of medical issues that can cause weight gain that is hard to lose (hypothyroidism, Cushings, PCOS, or medication like antidepressants and birth control) and unfortunately you have to eat to live so if you gain 0.2 oz everytime you eat that is about 45lbs a year. Off very little weight gain per meal— and that’s only doing 1 meal per day btw

Anonymous

#15 1w

That would be 4.6 pounds💀 14 ish for 3 meals a day. Idk WHAT MATH has you thinking 0.2 oz * 365days gets you to 45 pounds 😭 you’re also not factoring in that only 28% of children get regular exercise. That is a parental issue. Quit trying to make excuses for people having overweight children.

Anonymous

OP 1w

Sorry I meant 2oz not .2 oz but my point isn’t that parents don’t have overweight kids but blaming parents without knowledge of the circumstances isn’t right either due to WHY they could have increased weight outside of healthy habits, such as medical issues or medication. Also a lot of parents with school age children only provide them with ONE meal 5 days out of the week as breakfast and lunch are served AT SCHOOL. School age children (outside of summer) consume more food at school than home

Anonymous

OP 1w

Not to mention, some schools don’t provide PE after a certain age. I no longer got PE at my school after 6th grade. And children spend about 1/3 of their awake time per week at school so school that don’t provide an PE could be at fault vs the parents alone