Eight Years Old and Fourteen Stone

[Neil Pickup]

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/...253201,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6396457.stm
http://www.channel4.com/news/content...sp?id=23232519

Choice extracts... "People pick on us because of my weight. They call us fat."

""Connor had a mouthful of apple once and he didn't like it."

"He refuses to eat fruit, vegetables and salads - he has processed foods."

"When Connor won't eat anything else, I've got to give him the foods he likes."

"Through Connor's weight gain there's been no-one there to step in. He's been going to doctors and stuff, he's been getting weighed, and no-one's actually stepped in and said `Look, there's a problem here, we have to get it sorted.'"

His mother Nicola McKeown, 35, has blamed doctors for failing to help the family."

People like her should not be allowed to reproduce. Or breathe.

[cover drive man]

That's terrible but you shouldn't skit obese people.

[steds]

**** me. That's disgraceful.

"Connor had a mouthful of apple once and he didn't like it."

Pathetic.

[cover drive man]

I can't help but wander what that kid's like in the social part of life.

[AussieDominance]

Obviously not very good CDM man I find it sad and quite disgusting it has got to this level. Back to CDM he can barely walk so how is he going to go well in the social part of life!

[cover drive man]

Obviously not very good CDM man I find it sad and quite disgusting it has got to this level. Back to CDM he can barely walk so how is he going to go well in the social part of life!

But seriously surely that can't help with his social life.

[Goughy]

The prospect of this kid being taken into care >>>>>> than his current condition

[open365]

I can't help but wander what that kid's like in the social part of life.

People have **** social lives for all sorts of reason.

Contrary to popular belief(in my opinion anyway) being fat is not a reason to be unliked, having a **** personality of being a **** to other people is what gets you unliked, people just use fat as an insult because they want to hurt you, being fat often doesn't play a part in why your bullied.

Like some people who don't like me my height and appearance as an insult, yet the reason they dis like me is because i'm a nob head to them(seeing as whoever doesn't like me is generaly a ****), not because i'm tall and wear glasses.

His situation is terrible though, i can't believe a mother would let her child get like that, it's sickening.

[Tom Halsey]

Contrary to popular belief(in my opinion anyway) being fat is not a reason to be unliked.

Indeed.

In my experience, fatties tend to get a lot of stick, but generally in a light-hearted manner unless they're a complete **** anyway.

[BoyBrumby]

It's on ITV now. The boy's a tank. **** me.

EDIT: Hate to fall victim to the eighth deadly sin (snobbery), but you can't help but laugh at the sight of his mum doing chips with a fag in her mouth.

[Jungle Jumbo]

On the BBC link, there's a photo of him with the caption 'Connor prefers processed food.'

That's sick. I wouldn't be able to let my kid or my brother look anything like that. Time they brought in some proper fitness training at school for all those overweight and with no proper medical reason.

[Neil Pickup]

On the BBC link, there's a photo of him with the caption 'Connor prefers processed food.'

That's sick. I wouldn't be able to let my kid or my brother look anything like that. Time they brought in some proper fitness training at school for all those overweight and with no proper medical reason.

...and where do you want us to put that in the curriculum? Along with the other hundred topics in PSHE, which is non-compulsory and squeezed in the corner as it is?

[Jungle Jumbo]

...and where do you want us to put that in the curriculum? Along with the other hundred topics in PSHE, which is non-compulsory and squeezed in the corner as it is?

After school. County fitness guru comes in, ideally some huge guy. Weighs everyone in front of the whole school in assembly (allowing those with some medical condition to drop out). Ropes those on the list back in after school. Makes them do circuits until they can't run anymore. Which is about 10 minutes. That should sort them out.

You spend enough time in class doing loads of crap anyway - my Mum keeps going on about all this psychological stuff - 'brain gym' or something. Remove that, get rid of 'exploring relationships' and 'citizenship' from the timetable, remove all those extra breaks that keep appearing in the day. Then make them do star jumps, while learning.

[Neil Pickup]

After school. County fitness guru comes in, ideally some huge guy. Weighs everyone in front of the whole school in assembly (allowing those with some medical condition to drop out). Ropes those on the list back in after school. Makes them do circuits until they can't run anymore. Which is about 10 minutes. That should sort them out.

You spend enough time in class doing loads of crap anyway - my Mum keeps going on about all this psychological stuff - 'brain gym' or something. Remove that, get rid of 'exploring relationships' and 'citizenship' from the timetable, remove all those extra breaks that keep appearing in the day. Then make them do star jumps, while learning.

Brain Gym works.

[Scaly piscine]

...and where do you want us to put that in the curriculum? Along with the other hundred topics in PSHE, which is non-compulsory and squeezed in the corner as it is?

Meh, when the incredibly stupid people of this country finally get rid of this labour government (nice documentary on channel 4 just now - saying how recent PFI hospitals being built which would have cost 8 billion in the public sector are actually going to cost 53 billion over 30 years because of the government going private so the borrowing doesn't go on their books) everything is going to need a rewrite anyway.