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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 262530" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>wow, I had no idea this would hit nerves. Let me clarify a couple of things- I was paraphrasing a little in my original post to keep it from getting too lengthy (as I sometimes do). He did say that after someeone becomes obese, there are physical problems and one of them is the metabolism changing and messages in the body changing that keep a person eating all the time (that's a bit of a paraphrase too, but the point is that it was not a physical illness or medications, etc, that caused the excessive hunger or weight gain to start with).</p><p></p><p>Ok, he didn't say to go thru a store inviting people to humilate your child. The mother was apparently giving into tantrums in the store because she was miore concerned about what others' were thinking than about sticking to what was best for the child. The mother asked something about how to handle it when people came by and gave her dirty looks or made a snide comment when her child was throwing a tantrum. Apparently the mom was concerned that these people might think she was abusing the child or something.</p><p></p><p>As a side note, we aren't talking about kids with neurological problems or Learning Disability (LD)'s or our typical difficult child's (I don't think)- where the bigger issue is something else and food is only one trigger for a meltdown or conflict. At least that is the way it appeared to me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 262530, member: 3699"] wow, I had no idea this would hit nerves. Let me clarify a couple of things- I was paraphrasing a little in my original post to keep it from getting too lengthy (as I sometimes do). He did say that after someeone becomes obese, there are physical problems and one of them is the metabolism changing and messages in the body changing that keep a person eating all the time (that's a bit of a paraphrase too, but the point is that it was not a physical illness or medications, etc, that caused the excessive hunger or weight gain to start with). Ok, he didn't say to go thru a store inviting people to humilate your child. The mother was apparently giving into tantrums in the store because she was miore concerned about what others' were thinking than about sticking to what was best for the child. The mother asked something about how to handle it when people came by and gave her dirty looks or made a snide comment when her child was throwing a tantrum. Apparently the mom was concerned that these people might think she was abusing the child or something. As a side note, we aren't talking about kids with neurological problems or Learning Disability (LD)'s or our typical difficult child's (I don't think)- where the bigger issue is something else and food is only one trigger for a meltdown or conflict. At least that is the way it appeared to me. [/QUOTE]
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