Are YOU your brother's keeper? If not then do you believe how you raise your kids is none of our dam* business?

When Michelle Obama was FIRST LADY she encouraged kids to EXERCISE. She also educated them about where food comes from by starting a vegetable garden, planting seeds, having them help take care of them and then picking them. First thing don did was destroy the vegetable garden. He also abhors exercise because "it takes too much energy". Irate parents EXCORIATED Michelle for her DARING to suggest to them how they could improve their children's lives. They attacked her viciously. Now the US has a severe problem with OBESITY! Children and adults are way obese and ya know what?  The parents don't give a sh** about it. If they did they would DO something about it. So they are fat and they raise fat kids all of whom have severe health problems as do they. Do they take any responsibility at all for it? Are you kidding me? Why take responsibility when you can blame liberals. It is quite disgusting. Parents are killing their own children because of the obstinate and ignorant insistence that they know what is best for their kids.  SIGH. Now I assume your family is healthy. I assume the food you eat is nutritious. I assume none of you has any health problems directly related to your own actions. Sadly not all families are like that. When some pol wanted to reduce the sale of sugared drinks in school vending machines in California (I believe it was in our state) awhile ago you should have read the diatribes from the sugar-loving people. Once again.."HOW DARE THEY suggest to us how we can help our kids to be healthier?" So that's what they want that's what they deserve. The kids are just hostages and victims. Sad that. Thank you for your reply D. This post was edited by RosieG at February 17, 2019 7:25 AM MST

That is precisely why we have an EPIDEMIC OF OBESE CHILDREN m2c. So you can feed your kid  junk food crap and sugared drinks and have him/her become obese and get all the illnesses attributed to it right? So what? Right?  Whose business is it of anyone's what you feed your kids. I know. The world is filled with folks who think precisely exactly as you do. Sadly for their children who are simply hostages of and victims of their parents who get enraged when anyone dares tell them how to help their children be healthier. I get it. Pity the poor children with such parents. I know it's none of my dam* business. I don't care. I still care about other people's children. So sue me. Thank you for your reply and Happy Sunday to thy! :)

Do  you know what is best for other folks' children?  Why do you imagine you know better than they do?  Should everyone do what you think they should do?   Or what you tell them to do?  We are all "victims" of our parents.  In both positive and negative ways.  Because we are part of our parents and are not separate from them.  Part of having freedom is having the freedom to fail.  If we did not have that freedom God would have seen to it that we all were perfectly healthy.  In which case we would have had no free will.  No one is perfect so no one will be a "perfect" parent.   Are you perfect? If you think you are or were then maybe you are unaware of your shortcomings. 

I prepare very healthy food for myself and my husband using macrobiotic principles. We are both healthy so far. Yet how many people care to dine with us on brown rice and seaweed and miso soup?  Very few so when we have guest we lighten it up a bit.  To each their own and some people will sicken and die and some will thrive. Which is the rule of life.  We have the right to set our own course in life which also means we accept the consequences of such a course and don't cry foul when it doesn't work for us. We can't tell people what to do - we can only model by our own lives and good behavior what we do and what we believe in. 

I have raised 3 children and none of them were/are overweight. It is about balance.