Jacqueline ElliottLeadership Strategist | CEO, Mother, Wife, Legacy-Builder

YOUR KIDS ARE FAT

18 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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A short excerpt from a YouTube video in which the speaker asserts that parents are responsible when their children are overweight because children do not independently choose their regular diet. The speaker distinguishes occasional pickiness from habitual exposure, argues that routinely serving limited healthy foods shapes preferences, and criticizes frequent compromise (e.g., serving microwave chicken nuggets) as teaching kids to prefer unhealthy foods. Emphasis: food habits are formed by what parents provide most of the time, not occasionally.

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If your kids are overweight, it's your fault. They don't decide what they eat. Kids who are super picky eaters. You know, I know that there's always the one kid that won't eat something, that's fine. But it's like if every day you're serving your kid chicken, broccoli, rice, salmon, asparagus, that's all they're gonna know. The problem is when you compromise and you think, I only have 10 minutes, I'm feed them microwave chicken nuggets every day. Of course that's all they're going to want to eat. That tastes good. You know, unfortunately, people look at people like you and I, and they think, oh, you must eat healthy all the time. It's like, no, it's about what we do most of the time, not of the time.