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Our family is contemplating an intervention for an obese nine yr.old grandchild...has anyone attempted to do this. We are looking for
advice. Please help!
Our family is contemplating an intervention for an obese nine yr.old grandchild...has anyone attempted to do this. We are looking for
advice. Please help!
Call the police immediately - not only the police; get hold of the bomb squad! Your grandchild may have a Twinkie stashed away in his or her backpack!
Our family is contemplating an intervention for an obese nine yr.old grandchild...has anyone attempted to do this. We are looking for
advice. Please help!
You can't be blamed for being concerned here. But maybe the above poster has a point and you might want to consider focusing the intervention on the parents themselves; they are the ones in control of the kind of food that is brought into their household.
I would suggest that you work with a counselor on this who has experience in family interventions. It isn't a terrible idea but it's a situation that needs to be handled quite sensitively.
It would be alot easier to just slowly ease them into changed habits. An intervention would be majorly traumatizing for a 9 year old IMHO. Most of the time when someone says "Family Intervention" I think of several family members telling a person (an ADULT) What they are doing to hurt the family and themselves, in detail. How they are hurting themselves and the family as a unit. I can't imagine needing an intervention for a 9 year old. Change what is bought for food in the home. Change the eating out habits of the family. Change the exercise habits of the family. Take a walk every night after dinner, ect. Easy, gentle things that don't have to be hard to work.
It would be alot easier to just slowly ease them into changed habits. An intervention would be majorly traumatizing for a 9 year old IMHO. Most of the time when someone says "Family Intervention" I think of several family members telling a person (an ADULT) What they are doing to hurt the family and themselves, in detail. How they are hurting themselves and the family as a unit. I can't imagine needing an intervention for a 9 year old. Change what is bought for food in the home. Change the eating out habits of the family. Change the exercise habits of the family. Take a walk every night after dinner, ect. Easy, gentle things that don't have to be hard to work.
That's good advice. But I get the impression that the OP is asking the question as a concerned grandparent and not as someone who has control over the food/activities in the home where the 9 year old lives. And it wasn't clear whether the 9 year old would be present at the intervention or just the parents.
Call the police immediately - not only the police; get hold of the bomb squad! Your grandchild may have a Twinkie stashed away in his or her backpack!
Get on the phone; time's a wastin'!
Have to agree here. An intervention is extreme, especially for a 9 year old. I have posted to threads concerning childhood obesity before and have considerable experience with this issue. Before anything, please check into all reasons for this child to be obese. It can stem from hundreds of reasons. From basic over-eating to boredom to a serious illness or disorder. An intervention at 9 years old is only going to cause the child to be self conscience and defensive and at such a young age, is detrimental to his/her emotional well being which can in turn, cause over-eating.
There was no intent for the child to be present at a family (intervention/meeting). We understand the vulnerability of such actions..sorry i didn't mention this at the beginning. However, due to the observations of our rather large family of this grandchild, nephew, cousin, we are hoping for ideas that will make his parents sit up and take notice of the impending health and emotional problems at are already well in progress. Being the matriarch, i have finally approached my son with a "do not delay medical attention" request and offers of help.. My hands are tied legally to do anything other than this.
you've offered your help, now it's out of your hands..You've done everything legally possible..I think the parents certainly must know by now how you all feel, and that from now on it really is up to them..I think if you keep in their face about it, you might allianate them,..I would tread lightly and just enjoy your grandson the way he is.
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