I'm tucking my oldest daughter Sarah into bed last night and after I pray with her I lean over to give her a hug. She gives me an extra squeeze and in the process gets me off balance so I end up leaning on her pretty good - sort of like squishing her. I give her a kiss and tell her I love her and she says, "Daddy, you're fat" Not what I was expecting out of that tender moment.
I tell her I'm sorry for "squishing" her and she proceeds to look at me with this cute little grin and say, "Daddy, your REALLY fat". I didn't know I squished her that much.
I try to take the high road and explain to my impressionable young daughter that it's not nice to call people "fat" and that I'm not really fat, I'm just bigger than her. She takes it in, thinks about it, smiles her princess smile at me and says, "No Daddy, you're fat."
If she wouldn't have been smiling, I might have had to sit on her for real and taunted her by saying, "who's fat?" But I kissed her again, laughed, picked up by broken heart and left.
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well as long as she's tell u and not lora... cuz... u know how sensitive they can be... not saying ur not ;)
As you might imagine, I have had thins same conversation. I know— big shocker, right? Anyway, knowing the pressures that young girls face (Abbey is 8 and some girls that age already DIET), I decided to make it a teaching moment but asking her "and?". You see, unlike you, I am fat. Not "big-boned", "a little overweight", or whatever. I'm FAT. So, we started to talk about it, asking what it means, is it important, how does God see us, that kind of stuff.
Don't get me wrong, I want to be in better shape. Funny thing is, my blood pressure and cholestoral are ok. My biggest issue is my energy level. I say all of that to say this: I hope my liitle girl stays fit her whole life (I weighed almost literally half what I do now when I graduated High School). However, I want to try to instill in her enough confidence in who she is in Christ that if she ever does gain unwanted weight, that she doesn't find her solution in a toothbrush handle.
I agree with her...you are kinda fat. maybe you should do a sit up or something! or take up b-ball and some flag football...hey how bout some capture the flag, yeah, thats the ticket!
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