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Ah yes, another rant worthless parenting. So the current mantra is "woe unto us, for our kids are fat little slugs that lie around shoving fatty snacks into their chops while basking in front of the tv". Yeah, it's the SCHOOLS fault for not making the kids exercise more, and providing vending machines with soda and chips. Yeah it's the evil food industry at fault for making tasty yet fattening edibles and advertising them. Yeah it's the video game industry's fault for making GRAPHIC AND VIOLENT video games that need to be rated M... oh wait, off track there for a sec. What I meant to say was that the video game industry needs to be blamed for making the games that the kids sit in front of. What else, blame clothing manufacturers for making fat kids clothes? Ok, it's stupid to start with, so it's hard to go to an extreme when you're already there.

So lets take this a point at a time. Yes kids are fat. And the only people to blame (unless your kid has a thyroid problem) are the parents. They buy the food the kids have at home. They provide the money the kids have at school. They own the TV and pay for the cable their kids watch. They buy the games the kids play and they are the ones SOLELY responsible for kicking their little asses out into the yard, or taking them to the playground, or signing them up for a sport. Yes you fucking lame-ass parents are the ones making your kids fat, and there is NO ONE ELSE TO BLAME. omg, why should that even need to be said.

It's fucking astonishing that adults need to be lectured in cause and effect. Apparently fucking and reproducing is something everyone can take for granted, but concept that you're the one responsible for raising a healthy child and NOT society, NOT tv, NOT the school system is beyond the grasp of the ordinary citizen.

I suppose given the number of ass-falling-out-of-the-pants fat parents out there it's no big surprise. Yes, in general the middle and south of America has an eating problem, and yeah, they wouldn't know a healthy diet if it forced its self onto their plates. But that's not everyone, and the "childhood obesity" news hasn't been limited to just that geographic section of America. It would be my opinion that even if I were fat, I sure the hell would make certain my kids weren't (again, barring legitimate medical problems). Further, there's a big difference between kids who are fat with muscle and those that aren't. Most of the kids that are being discussed don't stand a shot at tying their shoelaces without breaking a sweat, as distinguished from ones who only get a "sub-average" on the presidential fitness test.

To all you parents who are buying junk food for your kid to eat, who are giving them money to spend on snacks, who are letting your kids sit for hours in front of the tube, it's YOU who are choosing a life of medical problems for your child - NOT society. Take the fucking HoHo out of your goddamn cakehole and wake up. It's fine to crap your life away, but for fuck sake, have a care for your kids.