Parents Blame Selves for Children's Obesity
"My kid is lazy and overweight. I'm a failure... a terrible parent. I'm so depressed... where are my twinkies?"
Ninety percent of those surveyed were either very concerned or somewhat concerned with child obesity, the survey said.
And the other 10% said, "Get in the car kids, the Hot Donuts Now sign is flashing at Krispy Kreme!"
That graphic is mesmerizing...
Lazy parents = lazy kids. It's as simple as that. I once knew a lady who bought her nine-year old son five of those large bags of Halloween candy, so he wouldn't have to get off his butt and actually go trick-or-treating. She was a rather hefty, inactive woman, and at age nine, her son FAR outweighed ME. I was thirty-one years old, weighing 175 pounds.
I see a lot of heavy kids. Do you know where I see them? I see them in the grocery story, following around their parents who are pushing carts loaded with ice cream, Pepsi and Doritos. Every time.
It's another form of child abuse, as far as I'm concerned.