Lady to give out "you're too fat for candy" letters?

My mother doesn't hand out candy at all for this reason...but, then she doesn't hand out healthy snacks either (too many children with allergies or special diets, in her opinion), so she hands out unsharpened pencils in crazy colors and patterns. I live across the street...and I hand out little packs of crayons.

ETA: There is a lady in our neighborhood who hands out little prayer booklets on the evils of Halloween...we just shake our heads and wonder why she even answers her door and leaves her light on...

Tell me they're Chick Tracts. Those things are the epitome of comedy ..

http://www.chick.com/seasonal/halloween/2013/

All the outrage and "If that happened to MY kid .. " posts are fun and all, but in giving this careful consideration .. I don't believe the story. Or at least the narrative as it seems popularly presented today.

Do I believe a lady sent a sample letter and called a radio station to say she was doing this? Yep.

Do I believe a lady will actually be doing this? Nooooooo.

This was a nice little troll by some woman .. she's sitting back and watching everyone lose their ****ing minds. And probably having a chuckle.

I just don't believe a human being could be THAT stupid. If this happens, her name is certain to get out. An angry neighbor could snap a couple pics of her house, post her address on a public forum. Right or wrong, her house will be targeted by pranksters (vandals, whatever) on halloween night AND in the future. The script kiddies and /b/tards will go their normal harassing phone calls 24/7 and daily massive pizza orders to her house once she's been doxed ...

I reject the idea that she either doesn't understand this or doesn't give a damn.

I believe we as a nation have had our chain yanked.

Yeah, but throwing stones at even an imaginary foe is cathartic.

More power to her, was following a school bus the other day home(sigh) and almost all the kids that got off were obese or at least overweight.

It's the parents place to guide their children on proper eating. Do you even have kids?

Hey, don't lump all childless people in with this twit. I don't have kids and don't want any, but I'd never be ridiculous enough to defend this kind of hatefulness.

This woman will not be brave enough to give that "note" to children whose parents are nearby.

She is going to get egged and TP'd!!!

...repeatedly I'm sure

If my little brother got that crap I would go ballistic. I don't even have kids and I'm pissed off. What makes that uppity, self righteous biznotch even think she has the right?!

Next she'll be telling them there is no Santa...

What do you mean there is no Santa Claus???????????

I am so sorry...:sad: Santa does exist, he does.! Poor example.:embarassed:

My mother doesn't hand out candy at all for this reason...but, then she doesn't hand out healthy snacks either (too many children with allergies or special diets, in her opinion), so she hands out unsharpened pencils in crazy colors and patterns. I live across the street...and I hand out little packs of crayons.

ETA: There is a lady in our neighborhood who hands out little prayer booklets on the evils of Halloween...we just shake our heads and wonder why she even answers her door and leaves her light on...

Tell me they're Chick Tracts. Those things are the epitome of comedy ..

http://www.chick.com/seasonal/halloween/2013/

My husband is fond of the D&D tract. http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.ASP

All I can comment on is my experience as an obese child.
•Would it have stopped me from being obese? -- No.

•Would a letter such as that have even made it to my parents? -- Doubtful, I would have been too ashamed to show them.

•Would I still be obese after reading it? -- Yes, because I was never obese because of Halloween candy. I was obese from poor daily eating habits. My parents did not care about nutrition or exercise and that was the example they set for me. For many, many years, I just thought I was destined to be fat. I had no idea it came from the tons of junk that was freely given to me at any time.

•Would my parents have made a change if they had found the letter? --Highly unprobable. I feel fairly certain that my parents would have ignored the letter, continued doing whatever they wanted and tell me, "Yeah, you're fat, but you have a pretty face and you're smart, so get over it!" (I heard this a lot as a child).

•If I had kept it from my parents but read it myself and took it seriously, would I have been shamed into changing my eating habits? -- No. I was always an emotional binge eater and that would have sent me in the opposite direction. Back then (and even now sometimes), if I had a bad day at school, I'd sneak food on the bus... or I'd come home and eat 5 or 6 slices of white bread covered in pancake syrup because I was too little to use the stove to make real pancakes... or I'd eat all the chips in the house and get in trouble for it, but by then I was in a small food coma and didn't care.

People are free to speak their minds no matter how it makes other people feel. These days, if it "takes a village" to raise a child, then it seems we're going to raise them to either feel horribly ashamed of themselves or to ignore any points of view that are not their own. My family would never have done something like this at Halloween. Of course, my family wasn't very good at a lot of child rearing to begin with... It still seems like someone with their nose in other people's business who would be more classy about their message. For frack's sake... she could give the children that she's judging and making assumptions about a toothbrush instead of a letter. I would hate to see the reaction that a friend of mine would have had if her child had gotten this letter while he was just starting chemo... he was on a ton of steroids and was extremely bloated and gained weight rapidly. Although he wasn't given unhealthy foods (his food choices were upped to the most healthy and 'clean' by his parents to keep his body fighting cancer), he looked severely obese in a matter of weeks. I guess he would have gotten a letter. This lady doesn't know every child's home life and can't presume to understand every situation.

Seriously...think about it...just who is the victim here. I find it hard to believe that we have sunk so low that we truly believe its the children.

Ummm, huh? So, you've turned it around so that SHE is the victim?