Posted on 02/09/2010 10:51:37 AM PST by maggief
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Now, some critics are questioning whether using her own daughters as examples is fair to them. "Was it hurtful to her girls?" asked one blogger who focuses on Mommy issues. Psychology Today even questioned the first lady for using the word "chubby" to describe her daughters.
While her heart is in the right place, Michelle may not have considered or been familiar with the delicate balance between preventing obesity and triggering eating disorders. She mentioned that she put her children on a diet after her pediatrician and their father felt they were getting “chubby.” Words like “chubby” don’t cause eating disorders but they are often a trigger to disordered eating behavior. As an eating disorder professional, we would strongly caution parents from using labels or prerogative words to describe their child’s weight as this has lasting impacts on a child’s self esteem.
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TIA
After all Sasquatche has done for her country. They just won’t leave her alone.
Bwahahahahahahahaa
There is no telling what's going to happen to them as they enter their teens and who wants to have Mom on your back because she took up a cause and dragged you into it?
really!
“derogatory” not “prerogative”
I think “leave the kids alone” is the right rule, and that it works both ways. I can’t remember any time Clinton or Bush put their kids out there like this.
Psst Sasha and Malia... the GOP won’t give you a hard time if you are a trifle heavy set....
“the word “chubby” to describe her daughters”
“Don’t call me Norman, call me Chubsy Ubsy!”
Norman “Chubby” Chaney
Point noted.
Childhood obesity is a major problem.
Obama’s daughters are both, from what I have seen, a perfectly acceptable weight and in NO WAY should they be told to think, AT THIS STAGE OF THEIR LIFE, about being “chubby”.
If you are worried your pre-teen girl is “chubby” when she is a perfectly acceptable weight you predispose her to eating disorders. Trying to ‘slim down’ a preteen who is a perfectly acceptable weight is a good way to stunt physical and intellectual growth.
Can’t a preteen girl just BE, and not have to worry about how she looks (with all the creepy stuff that goes with it)? We all know that it will soon enough be a lifelong obsession for most women; must it be started so soon?
What is it with these people? She, of such slender physique, reports that the pediatrician and their skin-and-bones father thought the girls were getting chubby. Dad announces the kid’s grade on a test. This from a dude who won’t even produce his own birth certificate!
“Chubby” is NOT obese. Many young girls go thru a period of chubbiness before they begin to take on the contours of a woman. I imagine it’s God’s way, and not a major cause of concern, much less federal edicts about what we can and cannot feed our children, and where.
The woman makes me want to vomit.
I’m sure she meant pejorative.
As the father of two teen daughters, I could not agree more.
Let ‘em be.
I wish the First Lady would direct more efforts at deflating the massive ego of her husband then obsessing about fat kids
I have a tall daughter (5’2” at 10 years old). Every few months she gets a little “chubby” right before she shoots up again. It’s usually a warning sign for me to get the money together for new clothes and shoes (sigh).
You are right. Leave those 2 precious children. The price they will pay will be later on in life, when they figure out they have 2 of the biggest POS parents in the world. Its not their fault.
Kids need to be outside palying, instead of sitting in front of the TV.
Typical liberal parent. It’s all about Michelle don’t you know? Michelle’s two little home decor accents, (that would be daughters to us), won’t be harmed, if it’s in Michelle’s interest to use them in this fashion, right?
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