Mall Santa tells obese child, "Lay off the hamburgers and french fries." LOL

I see your point, but if the parents are too stupid to know, perhaps the kid can learn to take control of his own life. He might find and thank this guy some day.

 

Well, per the American way, that kid is now psychologically destroyed for life and might as well put him on full disability now. But for that mall Santa Claus, the kid could have been the person to finally find a cure to cancer or even CEO of McDonalds.

 

See, going over the top is a special skills set..

The best thing to do is first, cover expectations and other conduct issues in a class / orientation and have an employee sign a statement affirming they understand applicable company policy in those cases.

 

Most likely the mother is obese as well, probably both parents. The parents ought to be charged with child abuse instead of complaining about 'fat shaming.' One of the worst things that has happened in modern times is fat acceptance. I remember when I was a kid and a youngish couple moved in across the street. The woman weighed about 200 pounds,which was very unusual then. She was probably the fatest person I ever knew. In those days, fat acceptance did not exist.

 

I agree, he shouldn't have said it. But he is right. He should be the kids parent instead of the ones the kid has who enable the kid to be obese, which they probably are as well.

 

Next there will be a law that says when you sell a gun you need to to inform the purchaser that the gun is not to be used for murder but only for self defense, target practice, and hunting but only in season.

 

It takes a real tough guy to make fun of a overweight kid. So tell me how do you go to the school and lecture kids on how not to be bullies when you think its ok to make fat jokes to a kid.

 

Who claimed it was.

So do you think the mall employed him to make fat jokes to customers kids.

 

Well, given Mom can't put together a lucid sentence, I'm not surprised the boy is a whale. No doubt all 'parenting' is done from the sofa.

 

Don't be silly. Obesity is a choice.

 

Agree that this Santa is a meanie, but telling a kid not to do something clearly bad/dangerous, is what we as adults are supposed to do.

 

Hilarious, no?

Silly SBB

 

I agree. Somewhere in this thread I mentioned Santa shouldn't have said that, he's there to make kids happy, not give them a physical.

 

Ahhh .... yes they can. And yes they are. The percentage of obese people who are obese due to a bona fide physiological condition is tiny. 99.9% of fat people are fat because they choose to be.

If you're still unsure, check Prisoners of War. They all become skeletal at the same rate. NONE remain fat, ever.

 

Yes. See: POWs.

 

If I saw a random kid climbing on something dangerous in a shopping mall, I'd say something. Granted what this Santa said was best directed to Mom, the basic motive is the same.

 

He didn't 'make fun' of him, he suggested a safer approach.

 

There's the magical pixie-dust way ... where even though you only eat three small salads a day, you're enormous.

 

Kid is obese. Burgers and fries are not healthy. Fire the guy?

 

Pregnancy does not make you fat! I gained literally the weight of my babies in my second and third pregnancies. The first, I ate like a horse and gained extra kilos, after consciously deciding to run with the crazy pregnancy appetite just the once.

Thyroid problems are caused by obesity, not the other way around. There are no real obesity causing medical problems apart from Prada-Willi Syndrome, and that's almost always diagnosed very early in childhood. AND it doesn't cause obesity directly, it causes excessive eating (so we're back to the only real cause of fatness .. too much food and too little exercise).

 

Absolutely not.

 

NO IT DOES NOT! Pregnancy cannot cause obesity.

FOOD is what causes obesity.

 

No, they don't! Where I live, women don't gain weight during pregnancy, or barely any (apart from baby and fluid).

It's a choice.