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From DeAnna, child's age 11

I'ts 3a.m. and I am in tears writting this. After reading 5 pages of posts from other parents I feel horrible: guilt and embarrasment... a bad mom. My son Adrien is 11, he's 5'2 and 180lbs. I could sit and make excuses, blame the blame, but it all comes down to my fault. It's my fault he's overweight. It's my fault he eat's the wrong foods. It's my fault he gets teased at school. It's not like I feed him twinkies 6 times a day, I have trouble saying no. That kid could talk me out of anything, he's very good at it. He likes to bargin with me, I need a class on how to say "NO". NO-NO-NO... what a slap in the face to realize it's my fault he's miserable. Family and friends keep saying "he will out-grow it", "he'll get taller", "He's just a kid", "it's just babyfat", shame on me. And the doctors, telling me what to do, what not to do. Sitting there in judgement of me and my son. Are their children overweight? Do they live with a child that can convince you that they are starving, when you know they are not; Finding food wrappers tucked into great hiding places? I doubt it.