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No Halloween candy for you: N.D. woman to hand out letters to fat kids

Posted: Oct 31, 2013

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/30/nd-woman-hand-out-fat-letters-instead-candy-hallow/ Happy Halloween (to those who celebrate it) When I saw this on the news I thought it was a joke at first. Okay, maybe this lady has a point but IMO she had 2 options: 1. Do not hand out anything. Turn your light off, lock the door, stay inside, and keep your mouth shut. They are not your kids. 2. Hand out healthy snacks or non-food items like festive Halloween pencils, erasers, spider rings, etc. instead of that letter. I'm not a parent but I would be insulted if I got that handed to me/my child. Yes, childhood obesity is a problem but it's the parents' responsibility to feed their children healthy foods (within budget of course b/c the healthy food cost more than candy) BUT I do think if any child wants to dress up and celebrate trick or treating and have fun getting candy (that's free to them and saves the parents some money) then they should be able to do that! Thoughts? p.s. I hope she didn't get egged or TP'd;

That's ridiculous. - Your 2 ideas are all that is needed.

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Handing out healthy snacks or simply not participating are totally appropriate, but giving fat kids a letter? Don't they have enough to deal with already? The majority of the time, kids are fat because their parents aren't doing their jobs properly. So why punish the kids? How sad.

I hope - sm

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She gets her house egged.

Candy has been handed out for years and years - and hear this

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The 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s and ongoing. Years ago no obesity problem. In the 60s graduating HS in class of over 200 not one single obese person. We had fast food then, McDonald's, KFC about a block from my home, grandmother served dessert with dinner every night, ice cream, pie, cake, something sweet. I don't agree always parent's fault. Daphne Oz (Dr. Oz's daughter) stated yesterday on her show, "The Chew", she was obese as a young girl, not her family's fault because they had good food, close family but her fault because of what she wanted to eat. I really without a doubt think instead of looking at fast foods, large cola drinks that people should look more towards their food sources, i.e. chemicals including steroids that are in the meats we eat. Chicken, beef bulked up quicker and faster to get to market and then we eat. This was not something that happened years ago and I absolutely without a doubt feel like major contributing factor now.

Another aspect is that kids do not...... - Mom22dogs

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.....get enough exercise, thanks to such things as video games. I grew up in the 60s and we used to go outside and play and burn off all those extra calories.

We did too, I grew up in the 50s. We walked everywhere - another MT

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or rode our bikes. Played until it started getting dark outside.

I wish people would just let kids have a little fun - MT2

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for one night. There's a lady down the road from us who always gives nickels.

Nice. It was pennies back in the 80s... - clb

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I loved trick or treating when I was a kid. I was an only child until I was 11 so I didn't have to share any candy with my siblings. I would give my parents the stuff I didn't like though (how nice of me LOL). But I was limited to 1-2 pieces a night as a treat and I played outside/rode bikes/ran around and burned it off. I was stick skinny. I don't know if parents ration candy these days. I don't have kids so I don't know how it is nowadays.

It was a hoax - xx

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The story came from the same radio show that ran the call from the "deer-crossing sign" lady a year go, and the caller was the same person who did that hoax call. The radio show hosts didn't even bother to have a different person make the call.

Re: The fat kids letter - Nick

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I hope they TP'd the daylights out of her house! I don't wish for any real property damage, but a little TP or egg/tomago wake-up call would be fine. I was never a fat kid (played sports) but saw the agony some of the heaviers kids went through at the hands of bullies. Shame on this busybody lady. She is not the weight cop of the world.

Me too, my daughter was a "fat kid" and my son - was bullied because

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he was rather small and not into sports. They are now 33 and 27 and well adjusted, but it hurts the parents as much as the kids.

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