7 yrs. old, 400 lbs.

I totally agree, fitzy, that IS child abuse. Kids need limits and it's clear this one hasn't had near enough.

 

well...

you need a license to drive a car

should it be required to obtain a license to raise a kid?

discuss.

 

I'm not so sure that a license to raise a kid would be such a good idea, because exactly what guidelines would be required? It would be really hard to set boundaries, since there are so many different ways people raise their children. Not to mention, it might bar people who would otherwise be good parents from raising their child, because of mental illness or sexual preference...it would be really hard to draw a line. I wish it were only that simple, but the sad fact of the matter is, no matter what, there will always be shitty parents out there.

 

yea, having a license to raise kids isn't possible...

for the purpose of this thread, about childhood obesity - i would love to see more funding and education on ways to prevent this epidemic from growing. you have to educate these kids early and bring the parents in early and fix it early. mandatory physical education (not gym class, real phys. ed, teaching topics from proper nutrition and dieting, effects on endocrine system from poor eating, functional anatomy, physiology, kinesiology, etc all the way until a student graduates from high school), would include classes on how to properly lift weights....

the generation that is growing up right now may not live as long as there parents generation - thats sad...

 

I was kidding..but still..some parents..should have never been parents PERIOD.

 

i dont know if this makes me a bad person...but i get this weird undying urge whenever i see some small kid, at about that age fat and pudgy and waddling around like danny devito....i just wanna punch that kid, or give hime a little kick.....does this make me a bad person?...should i feel bad?

 

dude that would like make me hate my kid

 

Child abuse- plain and simple.

 

oh man, if i could make a kids parent do pushups for bringing the kid McD's or KFC for lunch at the sports camp i work at...i'd be soooo happy.

i hvae on active kid who loves doing pushups - he'd call me by a different name to get in trouble so i'd make him do pushups. he'd do it on purpose or do something wrong, so he could do pushups...eventually i made him do 100m sprints

on the other end of the spectrum, i have some overweight kids complain about me making them do pushups after doing something wrong - they'd rather go sit with my boss to be punished so they won't have to be physically active at a SPORTS CAMP

 

Oops, I didn't even see the other child abuse comments- only looked at the first page. But yeah, I can't understand parents that would allow that.

 

that is so sad. It all should be blamed on the parents they should go to jail for that. They are basically just letting their child die and keep feeding her. STOP FEEDING HER YOU DUMBFUCKS. its a sad world...

 

Come on ppl. There obviously some kind of glandular problem going on. It's not like she's spent 30 years on the couch eating BonBons. She's SEVEN!


(mmm... BonBons)

 

thats beyond just a glandular problem...thats from all the junk her mom gives her. no such thing as junkfood - theres junk, then theres food.

 

Just a glandular problem? Do you think that child gets physical excercise?

 

Can she even stand up? I couldn't watch the whole thing. I'm sure it's a vicious cycle regarding the ability exercise after a certain point.

 

Who knows at this point? I don't doubt there is some kind of health problem involved but please.... regardless, that child should have been excercising and/or have been to a doctor about health problems way before it reached this level.

 

Here's another video of the same child at the age of 5 and 200lbs. The commentary is in German, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvWnMSJOYLc

 

Well, there she is eating pizza and what looks like white bread, bologna and processed cheese....and soda. So right there is part of issue even though much of it is probably genetics. I feel bad for her actually- it's not her fault and she looks very happy with her dancing.

 

Geez oh man, my 7 year old son weighs like, 47 pounds for crying out loud!

 

I wish that someone would have teased that little girl by dangling food in front of her face then taking it away.