...and he might get taken away from his mother.
"People pick on us because of my weight. They call us fat. It makes us feel sick of the nutters always shouting at us," Connor told ITV.
This kid is huge. He weighs 58 pounds more than I do! :eek:
Connor, who lives with his mother and sister, has difficulty dressing and washing himself, misses school regularly because of poor health, and is targeted by bullies.
That's got to be an interesting smell on a hot day.
In cases like this that I've seen previously, the mother is usually huge, too. From that picture in the article, it doesn't look like the case.
He needs help. If he's hiding food and eating like he does there must be other problems. If mom's worried about them taking him away, she should consider losing him permanently, as in death.
Sad...
He looks to be tall for his age too.
It seems to me there's a vital step missing in the process of helping this boy and his family. The mother is clearly aware of the problem and making attempts to do something (albeit unsuccessful and perhaps even half-hearted ones), but the authorities are now threatening a care order because they have missed countless appointments.
Could the mountain not go to Mohammed in this case? Couldn't the nutritionists etc. visit them? It's hard enough to make a regularly-sized eight-year-old go somewhere they don't want to. What is she going to do if he point blank refuses to get up and go to the appointments? Employ a fork-lifter? The boy clearly doesn't seem to be aware of the seriousness of the problem -he's worried about the names he's being called, not the fact that he is likely to spend the rest of his short life in a great deal of physical discomfort.
I worry that if they take the boy from his family, whatever the problem is that causes him to over eat (low self esteem, attention-seeking, whatever) might be exacerbated. "I'm so worthless even my mum didn't want me" type thing.
It is child abuse, and the authorities clearly need to step up their action, but taking him into care? Not sure.
Perhaps the TV company could pay for a "food guard/personal trainer" to move in with the family for a month and film the progress?
I want to know how an eight year old uses the collective term "we" when referring to himself. Did he grow up reading Cleveland Amory or something? Is he royalty? Or does he simply bemoan that he weighs enough to be a group of eight year olds?
The authorities are in a bad position here. Basically there is only one tool the government has at its disposal. No. Make that two. They can take the kid away. They can threaten to take the kid away.
As a parent, I'm not sure I'd ever voluntarily allow a social worker to enter my house or talk to my kids. The best scenario would be that they leave and nothing comes of it. The worst is they take your kid from you. Nothing good can come from letting a social worker into your life. Not that they don't mean well.
I want to know how an eight year old uses the collective term "we" when referring to himself. Did he grow up reading Cleveland Amory or something? Is he royalty? Or does he simply bemoan that he weighs enough to be a group of eight year olds?
It's the local dialect. When they say 300 miles north of London, they mean a million miles away. Wallsend is practically Newcastle -Geordieland.
I'm really curious to know how tall he is.
Compulsive eating is a bitch...
Still...he's about 20 lbs. lighter than I am.
I'm really curious to know how tall he is.
From
this article:
When he was 2½, Connor was too heavy for his mother to pick him up, and at 5, he weighed more than 126 pounds, said The Journal, a regional newspaper. Now the boy, who is tall for his age at 5 feet, wears adult clothes and size eight shoes, the newspaper said.
At five feet tall, he's way beyond "overweight".
Too heavy to pick up at 2 1/2? There's got to be some underlying mental or physical problem there, not just bad diet. Not that the parental attitude to nutrition has helped in any way....
I wonder if it's not just the parents but a regional attitude to diet?
I lived a little north of Newcastle for a year when I was a kid in the early 80s, and no-one there ate vegetables. They were for the southern yuppies in the cities. They were grown on the farms to be sold or fed to the animals, not eaten by us. My (one-parent, not overly functional) family adopted that culture, even though we had come from a more vegetable-friendly southern urban environment and we knew what a balanced diet was. It was a bit of a "yes we know we should do it, but nobody else is so that makes it OK" attitude.
The funniest bit is, my mother and her boyfriend were in a "vegetarian' phase. Which basically meant we ate chips and other forms of spuds, rice, pasta, eggs and cheese. What a fun diet.
Actually that sounds a lot like MY diet, monster...
Actually that sounds a lot like MY diet, monster...
You want to end up like me? :eyebrow:
heed the warning and eat your veg. :lol:
He's just a growing boy.:cool: Connor not Ibram.
When global warming kills all the crops, he can feed the village.
Does any else see Vincent Crabbe (The fat bad kid from Slytherin in the Harry Potter movies) in this kid? Is it me or do all overweight British kids look sort of like this? :eyebrow:
For now, he can help win this boat race.
Yes indeed! Once again the British will circumnavigate the globe. Ass- fat power shall rule the waves.
There were several stories on the news about this kid. The thing that struck me most is that the mother says he wont eat anything but junk food.
Also, they showed him playing with other kids, and he's a bully.
I think the state should take him from the parents. They're fucking him up.
From what I understand, the rumors are not true -
He did not chase Warwick Davis around Heathrow Airport screaming -
"GET IN MY BELLY!!!"
This kids theme song should be "Godzilla".
Also, they showed him playing with other kids, and he's a bully.
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I've seen that before, the idea that their weight is their power. Sad they think that's what they have to offer. Kid needs counseling, and not a "how do YOU feel about being fat" kind of counselor. :neutral:
And from what I hear in the newscast, he has no Off switch to his appetite. No one seems to have looked for an underlying pathology yet.
Prader-Willi Syndrome?
It's a possibility, but I would suggest that in such a high-profile case he should have been checked for this.
Should doesn't mean
has of course.
He is a Prop in training.