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How do we as parents fight obesity among our young children when both parents work full time?

How do parents fight obesity, when both parents are working and in every corner there is a fast food restaurant that your child has to have or that commercial that makes your child cry all day until she or he has that chicken nugget. When the fast food product is cheaper and quicker to get than actually taking a trip to the local market, has parents raising their child's chances for obesity instead of taking time out of their day to help their children eat healthy.

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    Feb 24 2013: This is i think a serious concern and a problem a lot of parents must experience.
    Because working parents know they aren't allways there for the kids and thus feel guilty about it.
    Due to the guilty feelings they give in more quickly when the kid wants something like toys, food etc.

    In my opinion a child requires two things to grow up.
    1 A child needs attention, a parent must be there to talk to the kid about the world, about life about friendships and in your case about food and addiction.
    2 A child needs rules and those should be maintained and consequenses should be followed when the kid is offending them.

    If you work less you are able to do combine those two and you have extra time to make a healthy dinner.
    And keep your kid from getting obese by learning him/her rules and maintaining them. And in the mean time you can give the kid the attention he/she needs.

    Now it's easy for me to say because i don't know your situation and can't look into your household wallet.
    But i think with buying less and giving more attention you would be equally or more happy and so would the kids.

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