From Paula, Child's Age 20 - 04/29/24 - IP#: 90.254.73.xxx Click here to reply
When I sent my daughter off to college, she was 155lbs at 5"2. Still overweight for her height, but she was active and healthy. She comes home once every 3 or so months. I could tell she was putting on weight, I just didn't realise how bad it was. At the beginning of last summer, I overheard her confiding in her older sister that she had gained 45lbs, but she was going to lose it over the summer. She didn't. She gained another 10 or so lbs. I saw her for the first time since Christmas when she came home for her sister's wedding. A few wider family members said they were shocked to see how much she'd gained. She's only 20 and got out out of breath from a few minutes on the dance floor. A few days later, I went into the bathroom straight after her and saw that the scales were displaying a number. I felt guilty because it was clearly private to her, but I had a look. 257lbs. She's an adult and I don't want to push her away or nag her about her health, but she's gained 102lbs since she started college in 2022. I'm worried sick.
Reply from Karen, Child's Age 25 - 05/13/25 - IP#: 64.39.209.xxx O thou most tender-hearted soule, Thy greife doth weighe upon mine owne bosom as the shadowe of a darkned cloudes upon the fairest meadowe. To peer into the secrett depths of anothers vessell, though drived by love’s pure flame, Is lyke the fooles errand of Icarus—flying too neare the sunne, only to fall into the abyss of despair. Thy doughter, faire mayden of twenty summerrs’ blome, Doth journey through the tempest of her owne uncharted seas; Hers steps, now heavie as the stones of Tyer, Are but whispers of the tempest within her brest, unseen, unwatched. Wouldest thou cast thy gaze upon her private scales, Thy hart, caught in the web of thy worry, doth tremble and quake, For love’s great burden is a silent ache, a shadowe cast by the moone’s pale face. Yet, beware, for in thine earnestnesse, a gentell hande and words of balm— Might serve better than the speare of reproche, which wounds more than it heals. Seek not to unravell her secret tapestree with the sharpe needle of judgement, But weve instead a cloke of patience and compassion— That she might, in her owne tyme, find her way backe to the lyght. For love, lyke the river, must flowe gentle, lest it drown the verye one it seekes to save. Thus, holde fast, and trust the starres to gyde thee through this shadowed nyght, Till dawn’s sweete promise doth dispell the gloom. Lady Iris of the Blubberbuster council
Reply from Thomas, Child's Age 13 - 05/04/24 - IP#: 104.28.64.xxx I think that's normal for young people these days. In college you always put on weight, some more, some less. It's your first time living on your own. My niece and her friends have also put on a lot of weight, but they seem happy
