https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:30:10 +0000 Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:11:22 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.05 360 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=6694 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/ https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6694&PID=129037&title=obesity-testing-in-schools#129037 Author: miss
Subject: 6694
Posted: 11 April 2007 at 6:11pm

Why on earth are they using BMI? It is so not relevant for kids. What they should be concentrating on is a base level of fitness and physical enjoyment that can be measured purely by observed by kids involvement in fitness and PE activities.

I have had a couple of obese kids in my class, I simply worked with the parents on adjusting diets and involving the kids in extra curricular activities - slowly but surely their height caught up with their weight and they are now much closer to the 'normal' range. They feel a lot happier too.]]> Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:11:22 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6694&PID=129037&title=obesity-testing-in-schools#129037 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6694&PID=129032&title=obesity-testing-in-schools#129032 Author: SMoody
Subject: 6694
Posted: 11 April 2007 at 6:05pm

I would literally get violent if they try this Sh*t on my child. I have total body issues as we were weighed in front of everyone in Karate class. No matter if you are the right weight or not you are going to feel self-consious. All they are doing is making more girls anorexic, bulimic and into overeaters.

Not going to happen with my child. ]]> Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:05:09 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6694&PID=129032&title=obesity-testing-in-schools#129032 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6694&PID=128981&title=obesity-testing-in-schools#128981 Author: mummy_becks
Subject: 6694
Posted: 11 April 2007 at 4:35pm

BMI doesn't even work properly until you are 18 anyway so thats a bit weird them wanting to do it. I know my DH has big hang ups about this. He was a big boy right through primary and high school (Janine will know she went to high school with my DH) and he wants to make sure that our boys don't follow his path. His problem was an endless supply of bad food and being able to get it when he wanted as his mum would just buy it for them. I wouldn't allow them to do it at school and then print it no way. ]]> Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:35:48 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6694&PID=128981&title=obesity-testing-in-schools#128981 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6694&PID=128960&title=obesity-testing-in-schools#128960 Author: Kels
Subject: 6694
Posted: 11 April 2007 at 4:13pm

There is no way I would be consenting for my kids to be weighed at school. It would just be horrible!! If the school did it without consent then I would be putting in a complaint in.  There are definitely other ways and means of trying to decrease the rates of childhood obesity .]]> Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:13:39 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6694&PID=128960&title=obesity-testing-in-schools#128960 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6694&PID=128942&title=obesity-testing-in-schools#128942 Author: mamanee
Subject: 6694
Posted: 11 April 2007 at 3:46pm

I think this is absolutely terrible. Granted, there is a problem with obesity in the US, and in other countries too, but testing the BMI of children and sending results out is horrible. This will be so detrimental to the body image of young girls.

"Down the hall from the cafeteria and away from the gym, schools are deploying one of the latest weapons in the fight against childhood obesity - mandated measurements of body mass index.
On a recent afternoon, seventh graders at Robert K. Shafer Middle School in Bensalem waited as school nurse Kathleen McLaughlin recorded their heights and weights, the first step in tabulating BMIs. Each child's score, an indicator of body fat, will be mailed home in letters some have dubbed "obesity report cards."


"Michelle DeCarlo's 8-year-old daughter, Julianne, a soccer and lacrosse player, had a BMI score at the upper end of the normal range. DeCarlo was reluctant to share it with her."

Link to article]]> Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:46:36 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6694&PID=128942&title=obesity-testing-in-schools#128942