You cannot be serious!!!! They're are so many kids who come from money, never ate a " Fed lunch" in their lives and yet their obese. This is no different than any other problem, for the most part it falls to what the parents allow..............
TMCTLT wrote:
That was actually my next example.
So, I'm in a McDonalds, and I'm going to get a "lunch on the run." I'm behind a kid who has ten dollars in his hand, and his mom is standing right next to him. She's wearing some of the most God-awful clothing - a glittering gold jumpsuit and a matching "cap." Her hair is dyed pink...maybe it's his grandmother - not exactly sure - but they are related.
The kid gets up to the counter, and orders more than ten dollars worth of food. He's got a Quarter Pounder in there, fries, Chicken McNuggets...I mean, he's loading up his frickin' tray with food. And the mother / grandmother is just standing there, and doing nothing. He goes over his limit, so he has to "compromise" to get the maximum amount of food for his money. I think he came in just shy of the full ten-dollars.
I ordered what I usually get: a frickin' hamburger and a Diet Coke. The kid had some fifteen-times more food than me, and he was off to his obvious favorite place of engorgement. The guardian obviously had no problem with her little rugrat consuming three times his bodyweight in McDonalds vittles. And the kid, from what I remember, wasn't starving in the least.
However, I will say this: it was pretty clear to me that these people were not "wealthy" given where I was at (Pontiac). Odds are, given the area, one of those two was receiving some sort of public assistence.
Then again, if you're used to getting basically something for nothing, and don't have the discipline or the pride to earn what you receive, I seriously doubt that you'll have the attitude required to enforce restraint on your kids.
My one of my kids started to get a little overweight, and we frickin' cracked-down on him and his eating habits. Then again, we don't take any public assistence (and I thank God for that on a daily basis).
