to think this kid is just fat?

[Daddypigsgusset]

Somebody on my Facebook (sorry!) Is currently moaning about the size of kids uniforms.
Her gripe is that for her 11 year old daughter she has had to buy ladies size 18 blouses and skirts. She is putting this down to shops having an unrealistic idea of the size of modern children or some such nonsense. She has a lot of people agreeing with her, full on hunnage included.
Having never met her daughter, I had no idea if she was right or not but found a pic of her on her profile and she is extremely overweight as are both her parents. It's them that have an unrealistic idea of a healthy sized child isn't it, and not m&s?

Whether she is or not, what good are you trying to achieve by posting about it on MN?

What Mardy said

Oh dear, yes I think that is overweight. I am about 3 stone overweight, quite tall and am in a 14-16 in most shops. I would think a size 18 for an 11 year old must be upsetting for the girl too.

Really?

All I can say is that I don't find sizes too small.
Either about right or slightly big.

I wonder if people are agreeing to humour her or because they agree.

I think your title and OP is inflammatory. However I would be hypocritical to say YABU as I have a friend who does exactly the same and it makes me sad for the DD rather than judgemental.

If an eleven year old is size 18 there is something very wrong.

I have to buy my daughter age 11-12 skirts and 10-11 trousers and she is 8. She's very thin but very tall. She's not a giant so no idea what average sized children they size their clothes on.

I find it odd you looked for a picture if her daughter.

oh shut up and have some

Then you might be a bit less likely to post judgey, pointless posts about FB that quite frankly i think are bullshit

An age 11, size 18 kid IS way out of the norm.

Size 18 for an 11 yr old?

Yes that is over weight and her parents arent doing the girl any favours.

Size 18 for an 11 year old is wrong on all counts. They're in denial and should be ashamed of themselves, inflicting this on their DD;

Even if it's not normal, why bitch about it on MN?

Presume we're sposed to heft bosoms Mardy

And yes, leafing through photos to find the kid is erm unusual. Imo ofc.

At that size social services should be involved.

Like these two Holden? I'm on the left

My DD is almost 9 years old and wears clothes for an 8 year old. That kid is fat. End of.

I don't think M and S should be providing size 18 uniforms as they're a business and they'd only sell about 3.

I'm a size 18 but I've had a long time to get to this level of chub and if the child doesn't have any disabilities that would make her that weight then of course it's out of proportion.

However, she may well have an illness causing her to be that size and her mother may just be having a rant about how crap it is to get clothes for her sick kid.

Respectfully, if you don't know them well enough to know if there are other issues why are they on your Facebook since you don't know the kid?

Yes she's being very unrealistic. What can be done about it, goodness knows. This is why I was rather at the thing in the news about the suggestion that people who are obese should pay a fee to be treated in A&E because so many obese adults were obese children with parents who simply considered them to be "well built".

I think Daddy is bringing up a serious issue.
Size 18 at 11 years old does strike me as unusual, yet it appears the parents see it as a norm.

Is it because they can't see it and their friends avoid putting them straight, or because others in her peer group are of a similar size?

Both alternatives concern me tbh.

So: a girl i have heard of is overweight. Aibu to tell you all she is overweight?

Yes. Yabu. We are not interested.

The parents are certainly being unreasonable to criticise clothes manufacturers for not agreeing with them that an overweight child should fit into clothing for a regular sized kid of the same age

But you are also being unreasonable being so judgemental.