Obese kyds on FB friends posts. September 25, 2016 | Registered: 18 years ago Posts: 204 |
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doomflower
OK, so I have plenty of friends my own age who decided to begin having families at around age 40. Whatever suits them, y'know?
A lot of them have been really considerate with the pictures, too, not posting a zillion pictures a day. So I'm thankful for that. I don't mind seeing them every once in a while to see how they're doing, just not several times a day.
There's a trend I've noticed with more than one of these friends. They tend to love their kid with offerings of food. I first noticed their kids looking kind of pudgy around 5 years of age...lots of posts of ice cream snacks, etc. Now, these kids are very obviously obese. One of the proud parents posted the 'weird salad' his daughter made, basically garbanzo beans smothered in ranch dressing. If I had made something like that at the salad bar, my mother wouldn't have allowed me to eat it, because it isn't cute.
Do you think there's any good way to tell these people, "Excuse me, Traylenn is getting to be a bit on the round side. You might want to help him/her with portion control." These days, that's considered 'hating on parents', you know? It's like...we don't know anything, because we aren't *them*. But they're not doing a damn thing to stop a serious health issue from developing. It feels like a Catch-22, sometimes.
Re: Obese kyds on FB friends posts. September 25, 2016 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 2,308 |
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doomflower
OK, so I have plenty of friends my own age who decided to begin having families at around age 40. Whatever suits them, y'know?
Re: Obese kyds on FB friends posts. September 25, 2016 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 172 |
Parents wanting kids for the purpose of having someone look after them when they're old probably like the idea of their kids moving in with them after finishing college.Quote
StudioFiftyFour
If they're "boomeranging" back to the nest after completing college 20 years from now, your buddies will be 60+, wanting to retire, and yet having to deal with failure-to-launch adult children.
Yet another reason why children are not in my future...