Parenting Today.
Had a interesting conversation today with a mother. Her 13 year old daughter is anxious about having Thanksgiving with her grandmother. Her wonderful grandmother has told her granddaughter to her face that she is fat and needs to lose weight. Last year she apparently told her she was no longer pretty. Apparently at the dinner table for Thanksgiving she watches everything she eats, makes faces and shakes her head at the child.
Me being me simply said well tell the grandparents to stay home until dear old grandmother can stop being an itch. Mother's response was "that's not really an option. My response, hmmmmmm. Her response to my hmmmmm "I know my daughter will be well taken care of in the future". My response "so your parents are rich and when they die your daughter gets money". Her response "yes".
Really, for the love of God. This poor kid has to go through how many more Thanksgivings of feeling inadequate, refusing to eat food when the grandmother is around and feeling bad about herself before the woman dies. Is that fair?
Yes America is the land of Obesity and most kids today exercise their fingers from texting and playing stupid games and their mouths from telling their parents off then actually getting outside and running around getting exercise. I remember as a child after school being outside playing soccer, climbing trees or punching my cousin and running until the sun started to set but in this day and age things are so different.
To be an adult and bully a child is unbelievable, to not tell your own parent to go to hell because they are giving your child a major complex is extremely unbelievable, which one is worse?
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I would say the environment/parents are responsible not the child for her weight. Some conditions are medical, some are diet and lifestyle, some are due to other influences like endocrine disrupting chemicals that surround us now in water, pesticides, plastics, soaps, everything. These cause weight gain. None of these are the child's fault. Yes, it would be wrong to put up with that treatment just for future inheritance.
I agree 100% with you. I don’t blame the child I blame the parents. They don’t know how to parent which is what I’ve seen from a lot of people with kids. I was raised old school all it took was a look for me to behave, if I didn’t I knew I’d be picking a twig off a tree to get my butt beat. Kids today get away with way to much and the fact that they can screw abuse from getting smacked doesn’t help. I had to eat what was for dinner or eat nothing at all. Parents today cook one meal for themselves and another for the child because he/she doesn’t want what they’ve cooked. What is that insanity?
This child supposedly has no physical issues. She just doesn’t want to do anything even study at times apparently. I just think it’s not right to subject her to on going negative criticism which could put her into depression or God knows what else.
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That's really sad.
Yes it is but that's the world we live in. Priorities are all messed up.