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wanttorun100
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 Posted: 01/30/06 - 11:37 Post subject: need to talk with someone who has a 4th grade daughter
Little WTR #1 has a young lady in his class with some body weight issues
She's your classic latch key kid. On her own from end of school until about 7:30 at night. When we lived in town she used to come hang out at our house. When I first saw her I thought she was a little boy. Hair cut very short, ball cap. Anyway she hung out from time to time, it really helped little WTR with some of his social skills (he got mine, very bad draw from the gene pool) I hear it helped Mattie with her school work.
Anyway we moved out to the country and I haven't seen Matie since summer. We had familyfun night at church Saturday and Mattie was dropped off there. Holy crow things have changed (I don't remember 4th / 5th grade girls with bresticles - some something changed or bad memory). Anyway you can tell she's a young lady now. Mattie used to chow down when she came to our place. We were having pizza (plus salad for the old folks). I was shoveling food to the kids to keep pawage
down and Mattie says she only wants salad cause she doesn't want to get fat! The girl used to be pretty much a stick and now is a stick with some bresticles on it.
WTH? This don't seem normal at all to me. Over reacting?
Just be be clear - she's not at all fat.
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Posted: 01/30/06 - 11:41 Post subject:
I've got some 3rd grade students that are overweight and show signs of "budding". Some fourth grade girls show the same signs without being overweight. Fifth grade: definitely. there are some real bombshells in the making. I think that sometimes girls need a little more guidance in wardrobe choices. Not because they are dressing provocatively, but because some fabrics, cuts, etc. show more than others. There is also an issue with undergarments; sometimes they just need to put something on underneath of that t-shirt!
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Posted: 01/30/06 - 11:49 Post subject:
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Posted: 01/30/06 - 12:01 Post subject:
I have a fourth grade daughter.
She's a very picky eater. However, she only picks junk food to eat.
Just like Dad.
She's tall, and basically a stick...just like Dad.
I'm probably no help whatsoever, here.
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Posted: 01/30/06 - 12:03 Post subject:
I have a 3rd grader. Some sign of puberty are showing up earlier. Some blame the steriods given to cattle that are passed thru to the milk kids drink.
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wanttorun100
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Posted: 01/30/06 - 12:04 Post subject:
Ok I was more wondering about the potential for eating disorder here.
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keltic63
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Posted: 01/30/06 - 12:04 Post subject:
| coachmarkos wrote: | I have a fourth grade daughter.
She's a very picky eater. However, she only picks junk food to eat.
Just like Dad.
She's tall, and basically a stick...just like Dad.
I'm probably no help whatsoever, here. |
think about some of your students. 4th grade girls that are starting to bloom? fifth grade girls who are well on their way to being stacked? I've even had some 6th grade boys with more hair on their legs than me. I've got 1 or 2 boys in 6th grade with changing voices.
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keltic63
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Posted: 01/30/06 - 12:07 Post subject:
| wanttorun100 wrote: | | Ok I was more wondering about the potential for eating disorder here. |
while that is possible, it may be more that she didn't want to eat too much in front of other people, (which can be a symptom of an Eating Disorder) or it could be that she just didn't like the looks of the pizza. or maybe, she paid attention in health class when they did the nutrition lesson.
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Posted: 01/30/06 - 12:15 Post subject:
she's probably just a little ahead of the curve as far as physical maturation goes; she could also be a year older than you know, lots of kids today are held back a year before starting kindergarten; a year makes a huge difference in their young lives as far as physical and emotional stuff goes.
about her "dieting".....that's kinda scary. i hate when i hear my 6th grader, a beanpole, say she feels fat or "look at my fat stomach"  it seems girls are either obsessed with it or oblivious to it and that's the way it kinda plays out physically (they are either really chubby or stick-like) but i still hate to hear them discuss dieting. i try to push "healthy eating" and "good choices" but yesterday, she had 2 cupcakes and i didn't say a dang word; you never know how she will process the information.
someone needs to set a better example for mattie maybe. it sounds like she is on her own and just absorbing all those media images of perfection 
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Posted: 01/30/06 - 12:23 Post subject:
I don't know if I'd worry about an eating disorder just yet. Is she skinny kid skinny, or bones poking out skinny? Kids say goofy things sometime's like Keltic said. I've got a forth grad daughter and one day she came home and said she didn't want to eat candy because she learned in school it was unhealthy. The next day I found a bunch of empty candy wrappers in her room. 
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Posted: 01/30/06 - 12:25 Post subject:
| akern wrote: | | I don't know if I'd worry about an eating disorder just yet. Is she skinny kid skinny, or bones poking out skinny? Kids say goofy things sometime's like Keltic said. I've got a forth grad daughter and one day she came home and said she didn't want to eat candy because she learned in school it was unhealthy. The next day I found a bunch of empty candy wrappers in her room. |
She's skinny kid skinny
Her 'mom' is bones poking out skinny or was the last time I saw her. 'Mom' has more issues that you can poke a stick at though.
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