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<blockquote data-quote="muttmeister" data-source="post: 262608" data-attributes="member: 135"><p>I think that one of the problems we have here is that we have all had difficult children and I firmly believe that, in many cases, what works with so-called "normal" kids does not work with difficult children. </p><p>When you are talking about overweight kids, it can be a symptom of some kind of rare metabolic disorder, it can be a kid using it as manipulation, it can be unhealthy lifestyle, it can be simply eating too much of the wrong things. Around here, when I see a very overweight child, 9 times out of 10 they are accompanied by a very overweight adult. It could be an inherited disorder but, more likely, it is parent who eat too much of the wrong things feeding the same things to their kids. It is easy to judge other people without knowing the facts; that's why so often when we do judge others we are MISjudging them.</p><p>As far as the tantrum thing goes, again, if you have a difficult child, how you deal with it may be tempered by your child's disorder. However, if it is just a kid having a fit to try to get you to do what he wants, I see nothing wrong with enlisting the aid of bystanders. Might is make the child feel bad and be ashamed? Sure. But isn't that a good thing? Kids should be taught to feel bad and be ashamed when they do something wrong. I am tired of living in a culture that thinks we mustn't ever bruise their little egos. My generation was raised to take responsibility for our actions and be ashamed when we did something wrong and I don't think it was a bad thing at all. Of course, I agree that if your child is a difficult child the issues may be different but, in general, I see nothing wrong with what he is saying.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="muttmeister, post: 262608, member: 135"] I think that one of the problems we have here is that we have all had difficult children and I firmly believe that, in many cases, what works with so-called "normal" kids does not work with difficult children. When you are talking about overweight kids, it can be a symptom of some kind of rare metabolic disorder, it can be a kid using it as manipulation, it can be unhealthy lifestyle, it can be simply eating too much of the wrong things. Around here, when I see a very overweight child, 9 times out of 10 they are accompanied by a very overweight adult. It could be an inherited disorder but, more likely, it is parent who eat too much of the wrong things feeding the same things to their kids. It is easy to judge other people without knowing the facts; that's why so often when we do judge others we are MISjudging them. As far as the tantrum thing goes, again, if you have a difficult child, how you deal with it may be tempered by your child's disorder. However, if it is just a kid having a fit to try to get you to do what he wants, I see nothing wrong with enlisting the aid of bystanders. Might is make the child feel bad and be ashamed? Sure. But isn't that a good thing? Kids should be taught to feel bad and be ashamed when they do something wrong. I am tired of living in a culture that thinks we mustn't ever bruise their little egos. My generation was raised to take responsibility for our actions and be ashamed when we did something wrong and I don't think it was a bad thing at all. Of course, I agree that if your child is a difficult child the issues may be different but, in general, I see nothing wrong with what he is saying. [/QUOTE]
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