From john, Child's Age 12 - 06/23/09 - IP#: 69.123.65.xxx  Click here to reply  
hello, everyone. later today, i apologized to my daughter, and she accepted it. she is good at hiding her feelings when she wants to. like today, i cleaned up her room while she went to the grocery store, and i found her journal. one of the entries went like this. It's not fair. Why can't i be the model?it's so embarrassing when i go anywhere, and i want to be homeschooled so badly. my friend told me to join her for dance, a few days ago, but my leotard ripped when i tried to get it on. i don't want to say anything to mom and dad, becuase they will laugh.__
i feel so helpless. she weighs more than double me, my wife, and her brother. i guess i should tell you about it. when she wasborn, she was a healthy weight, up until she was two years old. she always asked for more when we fed her, and i assumed she was just hungry. when she was three i noticed she was little chubby and thought it was jsut baby fat. at four and five, she had developed a rounder belly, and her face looked a little bit chubby. this was not something that had happened to our son, but we also thought it would go away. at six, she didn't even excersize anymore, and ate very large portions of food, bigger than her brother was eating at that point it was clear she wasno longer just chubby, but fat. her belly was very large, and she began to develop a double chin. she was classified as obese at age seven. wewere unfamiliar with this, because her brother wasclassified as underweight, and assumed she would follow in his steps. but she kept gaining and gaining, and all of it would end up stored in her stomach. i first saw it was getting more than a little bigger when she wore an old bikini to the pool at nine years old. her belly was stretched over to a little past her elbow in length if she were toi hold her arms outl. i remembered kyle wasin charge of rubbing sun tan lotion on her when she was a little girl, and he wasw curious, andh asked why her tummy was different from his. after we explained that, every time they got in a fight, he would tell her she wasn't skinny, and she didn't really understand it too much back then. i think most of her weight teasing comes from him. and it's really not my fault she dosen't listen. it's because she's spoiled that she became obese, and kyle obviously understands how to take care of himself beter than she does. she's hurting her body, and i don't know what to do anymore. her belly has gotten big, and it keeps getting bigger, along with the rest of her. please help our big girl become thin, i really don't want her to suffer with this body anymore.