Dear Care and Feeding: I'm such a hypocrite. How do I tell my kids I'm getting plastic surgery?
We have four children under age 16 and, as expected, we made many mistakes with our first. We were pretty militant about no sweets allowed except once a week on “dessert night.” My husband and I had both grown up with parents who made unhealthy choices and it took us a long time to learn healthier ones—we pledged to raise our children in a home full of healthy food. But as a result, we swung too far in the other direction and made sweets seem forbidden and even more appealing.
I am not a doctor, but it is my firm belief that no child should ever be put on a diet or be encouraged to pursue weight loss, and that those kinds of interventions are a one-way ticket to a lifetime of disordered eating and potential weight cycling, whichWhile you’re not specific about what you mean when you refer to your daughter as “bingeing,” if her fast food jaunts are indeed meeting the medical definition of a binge, she could be struggling with an eating disorder, like binge eating...
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