How to Help Your Overweight Daughter

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Tip 1 - Overweight Children: Tips for Parents

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by Steve Scroggs | permalink

Tags: talk to kids about weight, weight remarks, weight comments, overweight children, children weight, childhood obesity

For further reading: http://www.webmd.com/parenting/raising-fit-kids/mood/talking-kids-about-weight ^[1]

Tip 2 - Safe Weight Loss for Overweight Kids

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by Section 9 | permalink

Tags: weight loss for kids, overweight child/children/kids, safe weight loss

For further reading: http://www.webmd.com/parenting/raising-fit-kids/weight/safe-weight-loss ^[2]

Tip 3 - Private lives: How can I help my overweight daughter?

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by Julio Carabajal | permalink

My teenage daughter has put on a lot of weight and I'm worried that it's going to make her unhappy. I've tried offering advice and I've tried leaving her to her own devices, but neither strategy seems to work.
Tags: Health,Life and style,Health & wellbeing,Society,Relationships,Obesity

For further reading: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2007/apr/19/health.privatelives ^[3]

Tip 4 - Parenting an overweight child can be difficult

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by Garry Cole | permalink

Should they intervene early and practice a form of benign neglect, hoping that the baby fat will melt away as a child grows?
Tags: pediatric obesity, kids, fat, obesity, Children's National Medical Center, David Ludwig

For further reading: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/21/AR2011032103815.html ^[4]

Tip 5 - Don't Talk to Your Overweight Teen—Act!

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by Freddy Lykke | permalink

Pediatrics that says that kids are overwhelmed by talk of weight and dieting and feel they cannot change the numbers. As someone who was obese from early childhood and still struggling in my mid-50s, I’d like to add some thoughts to this poignant and very painful problem.

For further reading: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/what-fat-women-want/201306/dont-talk-your-overweight-teen-act ^[5]