Especially working women. If we'd just get back into the kitchen and cook proper meals for our families, then everything would be all right, wouldn't it.
Buried in the middle of that article is the comment that working mothers don't breastfeed for as long. Of course, it's phrased as though it's the mothers' fault rather than the employers'.
*feeling very very grateful for supportive employers*
And my pet bugbear: it's yet another article about childhood overweight/obesity which doesn't define those terms or give any reference to a definition. Anyone noticed how hard it is to find out how to tell whether your child is classified as "obese" "overweight" or "normal"? For those of us who have not seen many naked toddlers, it's not always easy to be confident by looking that your child is normal. You shouldn't need to go to your GP for this (even if your GP is any judge.)
If you look into it hard, you find it's a pretty contentious definition: the commonest one seems to be "over the 85th percentile of the BMI chart for children that age" (meaning that 15% of that population was obese by definition: then the population has fattened since the chart was made so it's more than 15% now).
I confess to being a bit relieved to notice that Colin has had a height-spurt without a weight-spurt and is now near the middle of the BMI chart for his age.
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Date: 2007-07-23 10:05 pm (UTC)(OTOH she gets a far better diet and more exercise at preschool than she ever got at home.)
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Date: 2007-07-23 10:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-24 04:49 am (UTC)Snarl.
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Date: 2007-07-24 07:02 am (UTC)*feeling very very grateful for supportive employers*
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Date: 2007-07-24 08:37 am (UTC)If you look into it hard, you find it's a pretty contentious definition: the commonest one seems to be "over the 85th percentile of the BMI chart for children that age" (meaning that 15% of that population was obese by definition: then the population has fattened since the chart was made so it's more than 15% now).
I confess to being a bit relieved to notice that Colin has had a height-spurt without a weight-spurt and is now near the middle of the BMI chart for his age.
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Date: 2007-07-24 01:02 pm (UTC)