-Socrates 420 B.C.

its the parents fault man.

the fact that at 18 months the boy was in 5 year old clothing tells its own story. The boy's 18 months old ffs, the mother must have shovelled down milk every time he f****** cried for about an hour to get him to that weight. you don't get like that through big bones. They never told the boy no as a baby so no wounder he still thinks that if he complains for food he'll get it, with a pigthick weak mother. stupid bitchcunt. "i hope we can control this with medicine"(words to that effect) is the typical pigthick response to all problems in modern day society, what a f****** bitch, no wounder her housband left her.

as to why the sister isn't the same size, if she's younger than him then it'll be a classic case of 'i'm always feeding the fat b****** (first borns are usually favourites) and can't fit the time in to feed my daughter.

He's big boned....

Or the fact that it's easier to cope with 1 child than it is with 2.

To get kids eating good food, you have to do many things that take love and effort:

If they don't like apples, give them a banana. If they dont like bananas, give them a carrot. Eventually, they'll find something that they like compared to the other things, and be happy eating it in the future. Just dont get out the frozen food, as that is positive reinforcement for refusing to eat something, and they'll know it works next time.

Have some routine as to when food like chips are eaten - they therefore feel that they cant control what they are eating.

Eat at the table as a family, and don't let the kid leave the table until theyve eaten most of everything. Knowing that they aren't able to play/watch tv is a great incentive.

If there is a food in a particular meal they dont like, don't change the recipe if they protest. Stick with it, and make them pick their mushrooms out (with assistance of course). Again makes it feel like parents are totally in charge of eating habits.

Make most of the foods yourself. Mix unhealthy stuff with simple, healthy stuff, ie homemade chips with a chopped tomato, half a tin of drained tuna, chunks of cheddar cheese, and a lettuce leaf.

Help the kid chop up his food, as it being easier for him to eat is more likely to make him want to eat it.

Also, lie like hell. I've seen other kids only wanting a certain type of pizza because they enjoyed one once, and my mum serving up a different pizza.

They ask: "Is it an American pizza?" in a way which implies that they will only eat it if it is.

It is a thin based Italian pizza, but the kids are too young to tell the difference, so my Mum told them it was.

Afterwards, she asked them if they liked it, and when they told her they did, she then tells them that she was wrong, it was actually another pizza, at which point the kids asked what it was, and added this new foodstuff to their mental list of food they like.

Always remember a mate coming to mine when I was little and me mam was doing fish fingers.  He said he didn't like them so she chopped them in half and told him they were fish toes.  He wolfed them down.

When I was a kid, if I refused to eat my food my Dad used to stop me from leaving the table until I would, if that didn't work he used to go to the fridge and get a huge piece of cheese and say I had the choice of either eating that (on it's own, no bread or anything), or finishing my meal. Unfortunately, I now have a hard-core cheese habit.

Basically, parents need to grow a backbone and make their kids eat a decent diet, don't use sweets etc as bribes or rewards and make sure that kids get plenty of exercise. That's the secret, I used to eat loads of s***, but I did a few hundred lengths of the Dolphin Centre pool every day, which meant I was dead healthy anyway. Active kids burn up so much energy that they can get away with it.

Me

But I haven't contributed yet

I'm sure the mother is killing the boy with kindness and lacks any kind if discipline with her son.  But that might not be the top and bottom of his problems......there are documented cases of people whose brains do not give out the normal "For fucks sake no more food I'm full" signals and who continue to eat regardless.  Our bodies are genetically programmed to keep stuffing it in until we get that hormonal signal.  The boy's pursuit of uber bulky foods, plus the fact he was doing this as a baby, suggests he might have a biological eating disorder coupled with a mother who won't say no.  I do hope they looked into this properly.

The fat b****** 

His mum said he tried a bite of an apple once and didn't like it.  Oh well, chips and sausages every 20 minutes it is then.

Just saw a report on the lad on Sky and rather than having a biological disorder it looks like he's a greedy fat b****** with an incredibly stupid mother.  She had the brass neck to claim his morbid obesity wasn't her responsibility but was in some way the GP's fault.  Why is it never their fault?  I fully expect her to sue the health service next.   Incidentally I was amazed the child wasn't dead through food poisoning, such was the state of her kitchen.  Still, I expect that's the council's fault......