Your kid to fat? get taken away!

[WelshBloke]

... i doubt the heavy kid is suffering.

The kid has to wear a positive pressure air mask at night to stop his airway collapsing. Those things are horrible.

 

[Zargon]

my 8 year old is about 40 lbs and around 44". she eats a lot too but like yours she's in gymnastics at least 10 hours a week. my 5 year old is almost as tall as her big sister and at the same weight.

EDIT: on topic, i'd say if i had a choice between Child Welfare Services focusing on a kid who is fed too much vs. a kid who is fed too little, i would rather they focussed on the child who was fed too little if only to prevent that child from suffering. i doubt the heavy kid is suffering.

wait till he is 35 and rejected from the then current season of the biggest loser and has a cholesterol score over 300

 

[basslover1]

my 8 year old is about 40 lbs and around 44". she eats a lot too but like yours she's in gymnastics at least 10 hours a week. my 5 year old is almost as tall as her big sister and at the same weight.

EDIT: on topic, i'd say if i had a choice between Child Welfare Services focusing on a kid who is fed too much vs. a kid who is fed too little, i would rather they focussed on the child who was fed too little if only to prevent that child from suffering. i doubt the heavy kid is suffering.

He might not be suffering now, but he will be a few years down the road when his body can no longer cope with the extra weight.

I had back problems when I was 11-13 because I was 5'6" and hovering around 200lbs. I still have back problems now at 25 at 5'10" 195, sure I'm not "fit" but I'm not nearly as overweight as I was when I was a pre-teen.

 

[blackdogdeek]

The kid has to wear a positive pressure air mask at night to stop his airway collapsing. Those things are horrible.

is that true? i didn't see it in the article. if true, i agree that it is definitely not great but compared to the suffering of a starving child? i would still rather more focus on the starving child. i'm not talking about children at the poverty level but children who are actively neglected by their parents like that girl that was found wearing a disgustingly soiled diaper at like age 8 and was living in a room with her used diapers all over the place and couldn't even speak proper english. i'll see if i can find the article.

 

[blackdogdeek]

He might not be suffering now, but he will be a few years down the road when his body can no longer cope with the extra weight.

I had back problems when I was 11-13 because I was 5'6" and hovering around 200lbs. I still have back problems now at 25 at 5'10" 195, sure I'm not "fit" but I'm not nearly as overweight as I was when I was a pre-teen.

i agree with everyone that this situation is completely detrimental to the heavy kid's health and well-being. that's not the point i'm trying to make.

my point is that if given the choice between finding children who are actively starved or finding children who are actively overfed, i'd rather we focused on the former. put another way, if i found out that there was a child who was close to death due to starvation in the same jurisdiction in ohio as the overfed child i would feel worse than if the situation were reversed.

 

[soulcougher73]

Yeah this is parenting fail. Its a form of neglect. Glad they took the kid away.

 

[WelshBloke]

is that true? i didn't see it in the article. if true, i agree that it is definitely not great but compared to the suffering of a starving child? i would still rather more focus on the starving child. i'm not talking about children at the poverty level but children who are actively neglected by their parents like that girl that was found wearing a disgustingly soiled diaper at like age 8 and was living in a room with her used diapers all over the place and couldn't even speak proper english. i'll see if i can find the article.

There was a link in the Dailytech article that had some more details.

Yeah I agree that there are worse cases of child abuse out there, but this kids health is being put at risk right now. Its not just "a well he may get diabetes in the future" risk.

 

[WelshBloke]

Yeah this is parenting fail. Its a form of neglect. Glad they took the kid away.

Its never great when kids get taken away from their parents, I doubt the kid will be any happier with foster parents.

 

[blackdogdeek]

There was a link in the Dailytech article that had some more details.

Yeah I agree that there are worse cases of child abuse out there, but this kids health is being put at risk right now. Its not just "a well he may get diabetes in the future" risk.

i guess as long as child welfare has enough resources to combat both cases then that's best.

 

[MrX8503]

Another thing to take home about the situation is that if his health doesn't improve, he'll contribute to our already strained healthcare system.

 

[busydude]

This kid made a huge impact at an early age.

 

[I Saw OJ]

I'm 6'2" 205 pounds and I'm fat. A 200 pound 8 year old is beyond fat. The kid needs help so he doesn't die an early death and the mother needs help not being such a failure.

 

[JulesMaximus]

My son is 9 years old and maybe 65-70lbs. Not an ounce of fat on him. Can't imagine him weighing 200lbs. That's just fucked up.

 

[Fritzo]

I'm 6'2" 205 pounds and I'm fat. A 200 pound 8 year old is beyond fat. The kid needs help so he doesn't die an early death and the mother needs help not being such a failure.

Really? 205 @ 6'2" is a bit on the heavy side, but you really shouldn't be "fat".

 

[Herr Kutz]

Really? 205 @ 6'2" is a bit on the heavy side, but you really shouldn't be "fat".

This is ATOT. You need to subtract 2 inches and add 15 pounds, so he probably is fat.

 

[waggy]

. i doubt the heavy kid is suffering.

I gurentee the child was suffering. not just physical but emotionally. He can't run and play with the other kids. He is the object of ridicule and target of bully's. Not to mention the health issues he has to have and will have.

This is neglect. you don't get to be 200 lbs at 9 without a parents help.

 

[I Saw OJ]

This is ATOT. You need to subtract 2 inches and add 15 pounds, so he probably is fat.

Ya but I was making 7 figures and living with my supermodel girlfriend at 19 so its all good.

 

[blackdogdeek]

I gurentee the child was suffering. not just physical but emotionally. He can't run and play with the other kids. He is the object of ridicule and target of bully's. Not to mention the health issues he has to have and will have.

This is neglect. you don't get to be 200 lbs at 9 without a parents help.

if you had to choose between preventing the physical pain of starvation vs the physical pain of overfeeding which would you choose?

i would prefer we prevent both. but if we couldn't prevent both i'd prefer we prevent the former. my only worry is if this case prevents the latter at the expense of the former.

 

[ShawnD1]

EDIT: on topic, i'd say if i had a choice between Child Welfare Services focusing on a kid who is fed too much vs. a kid who is fed too little, i would rather they focussed on the child who was fed too little if only to prevent that child from suffering. i doubt the heavy kid is suffering.

You'd be surprised how bad fat can screw up your breathing. Imagine feeling short of breath all day, every day. This breathing problem also leads to sleep apnea. In simple terms, that means the person stops breathing as soon as they fall asleep. This leads to the person being tired and stupid all the time.

 

[blackdogdeek]

You'd be surprised how bad fat can screw up your breathing. Imagine feeling short of breath all day, every day. This breathing problem also leads to sleep apnea. In simple terms, that means the person stops breathing as soon as they fall asleep. This leads to the person being tired and stupid all the time.

ok let me rephrase. i doubt the heavy kid is suffering as bad as the starving kid.

 

[torpid]

my only worry is if this case prevents the latter at the expense of the former.

I doubt it. CPS doesn't randomly audit children and parents and this doesn't take a huge amount of time to handle initially.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

i agree with everyone that this situation is completely detrimental to the heavy kid's health and well-being. that's not the point i'm trying to make.

my point is that if given the choice between finding children who are actively starved or finding children who are actively overfed, i'd rather we focused on the former. put another way, if i found out that there was a child who was close to death due to starvation in the same jurisdiction in ohio as the overfed child i would feel worse than if the situation were reversed.

That's a false dichotomy. How about find both and deal with them? You're going to be hardpressed to find in his area children that are malnurished enough to equal the devastation being wrought on that kid. At that rate he's going to be crippled before he's 20 and dead before he's 40.

It was funny listening to fox news try to ostracize child services and putting as much effort as they could to skirt around just how bad of shape the kid was in. It was along the lines of who cares if they were killing him! Tey tuk huor kiz n teyl taek urz naxt!