Oh, great.
So if Mom is model-skinny and daughter inherited the wrong set of genes, daughter loses her home and family because she's too fat for mommy's ego.
So it's not just the kids at school picking on "the fat kid," now she gets kicked out of the house and into hell for it, too.
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Gee, ever consider enrolling the kid in dance, martial arts, little league, taking her roller skating, taking her hiking or caving, getting her started in marching band or jazzercise? Getting out and going bicycling with her? Getting a membership at the Y and taking her swimming several times a week (*excellent* if the big exercise problem is thigh rash)
If she's just got the wrong set of genes, she won't get skinny, but it'll be great for her health---while spending time *with* her family.
Work out *with* your kid three times a week--gently but firmly insisting, but being totally positive in the social interaction of the workout--and even if she's still obese, at least she'll have the cardio fitness to carry it, and the endorphins not to succumb to despair over it.
Not to mention knowing you love her because you spend time with her and are *positive* and *affirming* when you do it.
Fat kids don't need to be kicked out of their house into Frankenstein's castle fat farms.
Fat kids need their parents to spend time with them positively, empathetically, firmly, *sharing* their workout.
Unless, of course, the kid has a genuine love for some physical activity she can do with peers----swim team, marching band, dance.
My kid's dance studio always had a few overweight students. They didn't turn into skinny minnies, but they toned up, they got their cardio fitness up to where they were keeping up with the other girls. They were a hell of a lot healthier than they would have been without dance.
They enjoyed the classes and kept coming back because dance wasn't based on what they shouldn't be or couldn't do---it showed them what they *could* do, and helped them do more.
Sure, kick the embarrassing fat kid out of the house so she won't embarrass Mom and Dad on the cocktail party circuit.
Grrrr.
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Timoclea