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So who's now paranoid about their child's eating habits after watching Too Fat to Toddle?

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Twinklemegan · 09/05/2008 22:58

I saw this on ITV2 after giving it a miss the first time around. Am I the only one who was completely shocked at those last two kids who were classed as "obese"?! I would never have even considered that my toddler could be overweight before that programme and now I'm ever so slightly paranoid. Will this herald a trend towards undernourished, hungry children?

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AitchTwoCiao · 09/05/2008 23:03

i definitely thought that those two kids were chunky but not in a way that puberty wouldn't sort out, iykwim? but the fact that the dad was clearly mixing up food with love was to me the better indicator of an eating problem of the future. (although to me food is loving, in a way, but he seemed unable to refuse them which isn't good). but i do wonder how those two were picked. fortunately dd is nicely rounded in a two-year-old way but deffo not porky.

BumperliciousNeedsToSleep · 09/05/2008 23:05

My DH definitely is now

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Twinklemegan · 09/05/2008 23:07

It seemed a pretty low threshold for obesity. Overweight yes, but obese?

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AitchTwoCiao · 09/05/2008 23:09

yep, i thought so too. i also thought that the adults talked about food, diet etc FAR too much in front of the kids.

BumperliciousNeedsToSleep · 09/05/2008 23:13

The strangest one was the blonde girl who was very fat but none of the rest of the family were.

AitchTwoCiao · 09/05/2008 23:19

yes, what was that about? do you think it was just cos she was the youngest? and where was the dad, perhaps he'd gone and the mum hadn't been able to say no to her. did you see the state of their back garden, btw? [judgey]

misdee · 09/05/2008 23:21

twinkle for fat tpddler-vs thin 5year old look at my pics in prfile of dd2. she was sooooo chubby until age 3/4 then it all fell off her overnight.

expatinscotland · 09/05/2008 23:22

no, i'm not.

my kids could stand to gain some weight.

DD1 has really stepped up the eating.

but she's still a reed.

ElizabethBeresfordSW19 · 09/05/2008 23:24

I thought that Aitch. How could anybody do so little with their back garden!!

I watched the programme with my Mum and my mum said that the thin mother was feeding her daughter to 'fill her own void'. It was weird thoguh.

Yeah that Lebanese or Turkish (?) guy needed to disassociate food and love.

AitchTwoCiao · 09/05/2008 23:25

they certainly scoffed loads of pizza and birthday cake when they were here... lovely girls.

expatinscotland · 09/05/2008 23:26

thanks, aitch .

they do love their food.

i get badgered for snacks and 'tea' all day.

i think if your kids are active, energetic, learning well, sleeping okay, not having problems with their bowels and the like, it might be a mistake to give them a label like obese when they're so young.

AitchTwoCiao · 09/05/2008 23:29

did you see the programme, expat? the wee blonde (who in all honesty was not wee) cried and said 'i don't like being overweight' and i just thought that's an adult speaking, a wee kid would say fat. they did far too much of the show with the children present imo.

AitchTwoCiao · 09/05/2008 23:30

i mean too much of the explanatory 'you're all gonna DIE' stuff.

expatinscotland · 09/05/2008 23:32

yes, i did wind up watching it.

poor tegan!

i agree, they did too much in front of the children.

have their forgotten how they take everything to heart?

it's so easy to hurt their feelings.

AitchTwoCiao · 09/05/2008 23:37

(although if i'm honest i did not warm to tegan. too many tantrums for a child her age, imo).

expatinscotland · 09/05/2008 23:38

maybe they edited her to show her at her worst.

oh, i don't know that i'd be able to put my child on a show like that.

AitchTwoCiao · 09/05/2008 23:39

true story, i was just coming back to say mind you, she might have just had two tantrums and we saw them both. she seemed sleekit to me, though. i am not a nice person.

expatinscotland · 09/05/2008 23:42

i just feel sorry for any child who is already put in a position to be seen as a weight problem so young.

and i'm a right coo .

i guess, i don't see many overweight children here. i'd have thought so, but nope. not many.

now teenagers, on the other hand . . .

AitchTwoCiao · 10/05/2008 11:41

so do i, so do i. but i felt that the child was also taking advantage of something deficient in her mother, in some way. although perhaps kids will always do that if you show them a weakness? god knows...

whoopsididitagain · 10/05/2008 11:45

they were on this morning the other day and i cant get over how much weight the little blonde scottish girl has lost

but both mms were saying it was all abot portion control and food awareness and how mch it had changed all there lives not jst the child that was focused on

anything to make people realise you cant shove crap in front of your kids

noddyholder · 10/05/2008 11:48

I can't believe there is such a programme Is it really neccesary to watch other peoples misery healt issues in the name of entertainment.

creepykid · 10/05/2008 11:48

not really

AitchTwoCiao · 10/05/2008 11:49

bread and circuses, noddy, bread and circuses...

ElizabethBeresfordSW19 · 10/05/2008 11:50

Yes Noddy, but it did make me think.... hmm, should I really give a five year old a whole sandwich (2 slices of bread) for lucnh? Now I give her half of a sandwich (1 slice of bread) and a banana and another small piece of fruit. Although I can't really say I learnt an awful lot from the programme, but perhaps some people did.......

posieflump · 10/05/2008 11:51

my gp said that it was fine to give a toddler an adult sized sandwich (ie 2 slices of bread)