150 pound 4 year old!

jdomep · Feb 4, 2003

My Advance for Nurses came yesterday and there is a great article on children and diabetes. If that poor little guy didn't have it I guess he is destined or that problem too. I can't tell you what I'd like to do to his mother.......

I keep thinking I am 6' tall and weigh 150 poor little boy

Furball · Feb 4, 2003

okaaaay...the saga continues

Yesterdays segment got so heated that they couldn't get to the other obese children...so we'll be treated to them today >sigh

LorraineCNA · Feb 8, 2003

Was when they showed the picture of the kid eating his dinner.

She said she feeds him healthy dinners....not that pasta is all that healthy to start with but OMG...is there any reason for a four year old to have a pound of pasta on his plate?

I don't care if you give the kid the healthiest food in the world, the kids going to be overweight if you feed him 10x's more of it than he should be getting!. My sixteen year old son doesn't put that much food on his plate!!!

It seems to me that when my kids were little the guideline was something like a TBSP of each food for each year they were old....

(a four-year old would eat 4 tablespoons of spaghetti which actually is a decent size serving for a little one although it doesn't sound like it)

...and she said one dietician told her he "needed to eat more" !?

sanakruz, ADN · Feb 8, 2003

The SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES this week shot down the lawsuit against McDonalds.

For those uninitiated that means there wil be no more 'suits

cactus wren · Feb 8, 2003

And did you folks see the show the next day? There was a mother who had her child placed in foster care, and he lost weight, and actually looked healthy? That mom was whining about she didn`t do anyhting wrong....Grrrr...... I`m over weight, have been most of my life...but my 5 children aren`t and have never been....) They ate healthy meals, and were sent out to play.....Now in this current world, I can see how getting a child outside to play is hard...I wouldn`t let a child outside without constant supervision...especially if one lives in a city..Glad my g-kids all live in rural areas....

SimplyMe · Feb 8, 2003

I agree with what everyone is saying about the child. It does lay upon the mother at that age. I have been overweight all my life and I know how it feels to be picked on. You don't know how it is until you have been there yourself and really don't have a right to judge unless you have. But, my point is, I swore that my daughter would never be overweight. She is now five years old and I am very proud of the eating habits I have taught her. She would choose vegetables like tomatoes over junk any day. I don't blame my mother for my weight. But I make sure that my little girl was introduced to the right things at an early age, she is not deprived of McDonalds or pizza but it's all in moderation. She is a beautiful, healthy, active five year old and I pray she never struggles with her weight the way that I have.

panda_181 · Feb 8, 2003

And this is why I think people should have to take a test before they become parents! You have to take a test to get a driver's license, and this is much more important than driving a car!

And speaking of sueing the fast food joints, did anyone hear of the woman who sued her doctor/the hospital because she felt pain while giving birth? I guess he told her if she had an epidural she wouldn't feel any pain (bull!) and since she did she sued him...she got over 1 million bucks from that one! What is this world coming to?

Amanda :)

KIMHBTRAN · Feb 24, 2003

He must've had a lousy lawyer!

Re: 150 lb 4-year old

Social services should be notified or something!

RN2B2005 · Feb 24, 2003

Personally, I believe that the parents' self-image has a lot to do with how the child perceives food.

My sister-in-law is very insecure about her appearance--even though she's a knockout by any standard. She's had some issues with her weight, although at the opposite end of the spectrum; all of us in the family suspect that she has some sort of eating disorder, as she either doesn't eat at all or eats and vomits.

Her oldest son, now four, has turned food into a power struggle. R. spends an inordinate amount of time trying to get him to eat, but then makes comments about her own weight. My nephew went through a normal toddler "picky" period and found out that a great way to get attention was to not eat. The end result is my nephew weighs only 27 pounds and barely eats anything when his mother is around (he eats like a normal kid when she's not around).

R. is in denial just like the mother on Dr. Phil's show--she's hauled my nephew to various doctors, only to be told that there's nothing wrong. None of these doctors has had the cojones to tell her the obvious--that her behaviour is directly contributing to her son's weight (or lack of it). The only good thing about all this is that my niece, who is 2 1/2 now, is robustly healthy and eats like a horse, because her mum is too preoccupied with her brother to notice what she does or doesn't eat.

Sarah, RNBScN · Feb 27, 2003

Very disturbing...

LilgirlRN, ADN, RN · Feb 27, 2003

Had a 180 lb 8 yr old and I thought that was bad. She was as tall as me however, 5 ft 4.

whipping girl in 07, RN · Feb 27, 2003

Originally posted by future_guru
Maury had on a show a few years ago with a couple that had a boy I think about 5, severly overweight. While the father was at work mom would let the boy eat whatever he wanted

The sister, mom, and nephew of a good friend of ours was on this same show. I remember when the kid (not the one you're talking about) was a baby, he would drink 5-8 oz bottles of formula each night (not to mention what he would eat during the day and the formula he would drink during the day). The mom (my friend's sister) came over one day without the baby and was telling me about this and I asked her if she thought that was normal and what her son's doctor had to say about it. She completely avoided my questions and acted like it was good that her baby had such a big appetite, even though at one year he was already over 40 lbs and so fat he couldn't even walk. Now, it did turn out that the child had hyperpituitarism, causing him to grow big, but even the doctors said that feeding him so much made things much worse. Now the child is 6 years old, over 5 feet tall, and God knows how much he weighs; no one will admit it but I'd venture to guess he's close to 200 lbs, maybe even more. It's such a shame.

I don't usually watch Dr. Phil, but I did happen to see this episode, and it brought back the memory of my friend's family being on Maury. I wish I'd seen this thread then.