I don’t know where this thread should be placed. Here or in Health & Fitness. Please Mods fit it where it suits best.
Coming to the point. Yes, the situation is as strange as it sounds by the title. Often mothers are more concerned about the diet of their kids in terms of less eating habits or/and sometimes Junk food over healthy food. The problem I am discussing here is entirely different and is about excessive eating.
I have come across a girl, aged 9, who eats MashAllah more than a grown up woman or like a man.
My intention here is not to nazar lagaaing her
but I really want to discuss how to overcome such a habit of a girl knowing growing kids love to eat as its the demand of their body. But this Girl, I personally feel, If she were my daughter I would have been really and I mean REALLY worried.
Fat girls don’t look good at all and yes, I am not talking about Chubby or Guppa sorta girls. She is really growing fat. One can call her a Fat Girl. If I can give you people a clue, last time when I saw her, she ate mashAllah 3 to 4 big chicken pieces in a plate of Biryani at a time, and still didn’t finish her meal even after every adult finished their meal and was stopped by her mother when she was asking more. Her mother HAD to tell her to stop now. Not only that, but after hardly ten minutes, she herself asked for the desserts saying, “now its desserts turn, where is the custard mom”, her sentence made her family quite embarrassed and because they were not an invited guests but achanak aa janay walay so I couldn’t have time to prepare any sweets. However, I already had offered some ice-cream which is always there in my freezer and her mother refused.
After being refused, she made a face and said, “ok, then how about the Cake that we brought to aunt, maybe we can eat that” and before I could stand up and offer her, her mother grabbed my hand and asked me to sit and said, no You don’t need to. I tried a lot to bring it to the girl but she was sitting in my way and I could only stand up if she could let me.
The problem is not her demand. Of course, that’s how the kids are and they don’t know what to say, when to say or where to say.
The only problem I figured was, she was eating too much. Her mother needed to stop her. Not only that, but I have always seen at different occasions that whenever her mother has asked her to help her with any chores, any minor chores like fetching her a glass of water, she would make faces like a really Lazy girl…her posture is really lazy, her eyes are always drowsy, she is always inactive, the way she walks is so indolent, she listens to her until her mother doesn’t repeat her order/direction/ request twice or sometimes thrice and …and sometimes no matter how many times, she doesn’t listen to her and directly says, I am not doing it. Not even once, I have seen her mother has scolded her that could make me think of the girl’s poor behavior, her mother has always been polite and humble to her, loving to her. But the girl is overall really lazy and eats a lot and watches the TV non-stop for hours and hours. She is always hungry.
I am just curious, how can we control such a child, when especially its a Girl and is with lot of eating habits. She might not realize but being a really Fat girl isn’t good. Girls that grow fat for no reason, is something else, and some of them even get slimmer by the time, but I am sure, this girl is fat just because she can not control her diet. More worrying is, she is at the growing stage and I am so clueless how to control her diet at such an age, is it what her body requires??? Would stopping her be a wrong decision?
How would you deal with this problem if it were your child?