to be upset about getting a letter telling me my ds is 1lb overweight?

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My ds (aged 5.5)was weighed and measured at school in March and I got the letter today telling me that he is 1lb overweight. I feel unreasonably upset. I have isshoos with weight myself and really ensure that my children eat healthily and are active. Ds is very slim and does not look overweight. I have told a few people this morning about the letter and they were horrified that he could be called overweight.

Please tell me I am being unreasonable and help me get some perspective on this. Or indeed, tell me what I should be doing (if anything) to help.

They take their shoes off,but I would assume that the charts take into account a variation for clothing.

Weighing kids at school? they can fuck right off, I'm not having my kids weighed at school. What is this? Schools turning into some sort of fat camp?

I would send the letter back saying 'thanks for that revelation!'

Sorry I'm laughing here at Hassled's comment about the bowel movement. Maybe send 'the movement' back in a jiffy bag and say, he's within the normal parametres again now. We're going to have dinner later though.

Yanbu.

For this reason I refused to allow the "state" to weigh my child when she was about to leave y6.

She is tall 5"4 and much taller than her friends, who could pass for y5 children.
She is not fat and is athletic and fit, but I know how sensitive I am to weight issues and I did not want her to hear that she is heavier than her friends.

wise simplesusan. Years ago watching celebrity love island liz mcClarnon (an adult in her late 20s at the time) was visibly shocked and depressed to learn that she was at 9 and a half stone 'the heaviest' of the girls. She is very tall and is still very slim. But just knowing that she was 'the heaviest girl' seemed to upset her. And she was an adult.

the children are not told their weight nor is anyone else in the school.

yabu.
lets say they decide "we won't bother with sending out leers for kids 3 pounds overweight and under" then when a parent receives a letter saying their kid is 4 pounds over weight they'll complain "oh ffs the he's one pound over the given parameter why are they bothering,it's going to perpetuate weight issues.they should only send it out if they are significntly outside the parameters."

My son was so heavy for his height at 9 that he soared off the centile scales.

But all the men in my family looked like winnie the pooh at that age, then they grew between 10 and 12. So as long as he could run a mile without getting breathless, was eating a healthy diet and had stamina, I wasn't bothered.
He's 14 now, 5'9 with his weight within normal parameters and looks gorgeous next to his gangly, scrawny peers. The walking and watersports have developed his muscles and he has no complex about his past tubbiness.

Wasn't there an article a while back pointing out that according to statistics, the New Zealand All blacks are significantly obese?
Yum

well according to the bmi brad pitt and george clooney would be obese.
but that's because it has no relevance to health seeing as it was developed in the 19th century as part of a social study in belgium.