150 pound 4 year old!

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Ok, I admit it! I watched Dr. Phil today on my day off! I have a cold on my day off and was lounging on the couch. lol

This mother has a son who weighs 150 pounds and was in complete denial about the entire thing! She keeps taking him to doctors wanting them to give her some medical reason for being obese, but keeps pouring the food in him. ?????????? This mother herself weighed over 350 pounds! The logic gene totally skipped this women! The kid already has acid reflux at 4 years old. I don't even want to know what condition his heart is in. Yikes, a little scary.

Just venting all, thx.

Andy

Specializes in Med/Surg.

I agree with Furball. How Dr. Phil kept himself from just reaching over and strangling that mom is beyond me.

And then there is grandma sitting in the audience getting all huffy 'cause "everybody in the audience thinks all we do is feed this child" Give me a break. He's four years old, he can't prepare meals all by himself. It's obvious that family has been making excuses about their actions for a long time. Mom and grandma were only concerned about being "right." That poor child. When he starts school, he will be picked on constantly. Are they going to yank him out of school when this happens? YEESH!!

SORRY!!! SOMEONE is feeding that kid. He doesn't get to be that way by osmosis! It's disgusting, and I won't sugar coat that. The mother is juge-she should be totally ashamed of herself. Doesn't discipline, my eye......

Originally posted by Mimi Wheeze

I agree with Furball. How Dr. Phil kept himself from just reaching over and strangling that mom is beyond me.

Now THAT would've been something to see! Own it Dr. Phil!

That poor child. When he starts school, he will be picked on constantly. Are they going to yank him out of school when this happens? YEESH!! [/b]

If he even makes it that long! It would be unhealthy for me to be 150+ at my height let alone at a four yr olds size! Surely a Dr has seen him this way, he get like that overnight...and he's not going to stop getting bigger either.

I fear for kids like this, you couldn't live like a kid if you're out of breath from walking. :o:

Originally posted by kittyw

Let's sue them.

:rolleyes:

Oops... you got it out before me. :)

According to a local Indiana newspaper it was tried and the judge thru it out stating they knew what they were eating when they went in there, no one made "held a gun to their head" and them do it. NOW, what really honks my horn is that don't people that smoke, me included, know what they are doing to their bodies, yet the cig companies are paying out the nose for this one. Talk about speaking out of both sides of your mouth!!!!!

You mean that's not a normal weight for a 4 year old?

Specializes in Med/Surg.

delirium:

Nope, not normal. Orange children aren't normal either!

:chuckle

We have an 800 pound patient in our ICU, Respiratory failure (surprise, surprise). It's hard not to judge an adult, but to do that to a kid ?? Child abuse. Dont' you think after the first 80 pounds she would question what was wrong, look to make some changes?? Sad, and scary.

My kids are skin and bone, very picky eaters, love junk food, and would eat out every day if I let them. I do believe there is a genetic/hereditary component, and we are a society of excess, which don't help, but at some point you have to take responsibility for what you put in your mouth and what you let your kids put in thier mouths. As for smoking, in the days when the older generation started to smoke, the dangers of smoking were not as widely known as they are now that they are hooked. It's always been know that eating too much makes you fat.

When my son was small (three) and refused to eat his veggies, I had to resort to trickery. One night I quietly put the tiniest bit of broccolli on his plate and then piled HUGE portions of brocolli on mine and hubbies plate. He noticed, of course, and asked why he got such a small portion. I explained to him that broccolli was for big people and he couldn't have much. Would you know that this child started whimpering and crying for more broccolli? To this day he LOVES his veggies. No problem.

This mom is nuts. If I had let my son have his way at age three he would've subsisted on pasta, cookies, pizza, Mcdonalds and chocolate.

Originally posted by delirium

You mean that's not a normal weight for a 4 year old?

Apparently for some it is :eek:

Specializes in Med/Surg, Geriatrics.
Originally posted by mjlrn97

I also don't get the mentality that encourages people to sue tobacco companies because their 2-pack-a-day habit gave them lung CA, or gun makers when some dumb s*** uses a .38 to hold up a convenience store. Why are people suddenly no longer responsible for their own stupidity?!

I don't get that either. The whole tobacco lawsuit stuff was nonsense, one lady won over a billion dollars. Ridiculous!

Specializes in Med/Surg, Geriatrics.
Originally posted by kimmicoobug

Yeah, she just looked so defiant when Dr. Phil just layed it to her. What in the h*ll did she expect, he IS Dr. Phil. That's part of his appeal.

She was extremely defensive. Did you hear the part where she referred to the program that Dr. Phil set her up as "your little program"? I feel really bad for that kid.

Does anyone know if this topic will be continued today? I would love to see a follow up on this little boy at some point.

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