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?
As the father of two teen daughters, I could not agree more.
Let ‘em be.
If you leave most of these kids alone and stop being helicopter parents, kids usually grow up and out of these “problems”. Geez, but we’re an obsessive society.
Thank you!!! As if it isn’t already hard enough to be a tween. Perhaps she should refer to her own chubbiness before throwing the girls under the bus.