Mother of the Year <-Sarcasm

Ick this article is sad. I had to copy and paste the lines that spoke to me most:

"'I want to change who I am entirely,' he said." - How sad that he believes that he need to change who is is because he is overweight.


"How has someone who exists on not much more than organic seaweed and lentils ended up with a child with a weight problem?" - Full of yourself much? Also, that sounds like a possible eating disorder...


"I developed a mild eating disorder, sometimes eating nothing more than a mango a day, and calorie counting like a maniac." - MILD? That's a full-blown eating disorder.


"It's become so bad I can see him looking at me every time he goes to eat something, worried about whether or not he should eat it and how I will react. It makes me feel terrible." - POOR KID. And it should make you feel terrible.


"Because he's overweight, running is harder for him. He gets breathless and disheartened. So the one thing he needs to do - exercise more - is the one thing he doesn't want to do." - Awwww. I can relate to him here. It's hard to exercise when you're bigger, and especially when you have an all-or-nothing view of it. Best to start small and to always do exercise that you enjoy. For kids, that could be just PLAYING, so why is she trying to force him to run? Playing tag with friends is better at 10 than a formal running routine...


"Thankfully, his siblings never make an issue of it. They are very supportive of him. They do not feel it is their job to judge him." - DING DING DING, you should learn something from your other children.


"He will be rewarded for losing weight - he is saving up to buy a skateboard." - HELLO get him the darn skateboard now. It sounds like there is a type of exercise that sounds like fun to him, so why are you making him lose weight with diet and running to "earn" the skateboard? Geeze.

Okay, I'm done here. I'm sad about this attitude. She said herself that she slimmed down naturally around age 12, so why is she expecting her son to be slim at 10?

This is one of the most annoying articles I've ever read. This mother is 99% to blame for her kid being fat, and yet she basically just keeps repeating how it's so unexpected and unfair.

This was my favorite line from the article:
"How has someone who exists on not much more than organic seaweed and lentils ended up with a child with a weight problem?"

Hmm, maybe if you fed him real food like a lean steak, fish, chicken, etc., he get full and stop gorging on the crackers and muffins you keep around the house? And of course he just "won't exercise." Try turning off the TV!!!!

I'm fat (working on it), that's my fault, my kids are not. It's my job to keep them healthy and make sure they don't sit in front of the TV all day or gorge themselves on sweets/cakes etc. A 10 year old is still looked after by parents, it's their job to help them, can't blame anybody else.

True..

But,not all her kids are fat. So that tells me that the personality of each kid/person has a lot to do with it. If she was such a horrible mom, why arent all her kids fat????

Edit: I didnt read the article, too long for me..I just looked at the pictures

He helps himself to biscuits etc, if she knows he does this and wont stop like her other children she should take away the "treat" foods so the temptation isn't there. He needs encouragement, not her pity or judgement.

Take away? Like never buy them? So, the non fat kids cannot enjoy a cookie because of the fat brother? I dont think thats right.

Take away? Like never buy them? So, the non fat kids cannot enjoy a cookie because of the fat brother? I dont think thats right.
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I never buy cookies (biscuits) why would my kids want to eat that kind of rubbish? they are allowed to eat it at parties etc but more often they dont.