Early Development.......

[Eclipse]

Originally posted by #1 Leading Lady:
Kids today are not only developing FAST some are TOO FAST and GROWN!!

My 5 year old son called himself introducing me to his girlfriend who then in turn TOLD me she was going to stay the NIGHT at MY HOUSE and get this and said " I going to sleep with your son too" and I was like no your lil fast butt will not...GROWN I tell GROWN and then I had a BBQ last weekend and my fiancee's friend brought their bad kids and they were like can we watch the Kings of Comedy DVD and I was like kids under 18 don't watch stuff like that at my house. WHOA ...Am I getting old or are this kids just GROWN?

Kids are that grown usually 'cause their parents are too young and think that junk is cute!! Hump...that mess is not CUTE people!!

My neices are also well developed for their ages. Unfortunately it really messed with my oldest neices self esteem. She hated being the largest one in class. She was wearing a size 11 shoe in like the 7th grade!!! Can you imagine the turmoil we went through trying to find her something other than gym shoes or old lady shoes in that size?!?!

[AKA2D '91]

Originally posted by sphinxpoet1:
I am sorry to say it is the food with all these extra hormones in it. They are not the main cause but they do contribute to the problem as well as the way some of these young ladies are dressing!

Sphinxpoet
9 Days until the most wonderful event comes front and center.....the Birthday of the Sphinxpoet!!!!!!!!

They are dressing the way they are, many of them, because they cannot FIT the clothes they should be wearing.

One of our Soror's daughter is only 11 years old. This child is 5'7 ALREADY! She wears a size 9, ALREADY!

IT IS VERY HARD TO FIND CLOTHES with winnie the pooh, blues clues, etc. (I know she would not wear, this, but I am only saying...)when you have to shop in the LADIES dept. to find clothes that fit....

Which goes BACK to something is in the food, milk, water!

[AKA2D '91]

Originally posted by mccoyred:
I also feel you on the hormones in the food. These children with adult bodies are being deprived of their childhood.

How else can those pieces of Church's chicken be SO BIG? HAVE YOU EVA SEEN A CHICKEN DAT BIG BEFORE? THINK ABOUT IT....THEY ARE PUTTIN SOMETHIN in the food...

Also, our great-grandparents (some of us, cause some Great G-parents are 50 years old LOL) didn't have conditions like diabetes, heart disease and all these ailments, cause they didn't eat all of those processed foods, foods bought in the stores. They ate the food THEY grew.

Think about that too!

[exquizit]

I feel what you're saying Regulator because my baby has already out grown all the children's shoes!I had to travel far and wide(out of town mind you)to find a shoe for Easter in her size without a large chunky heel!

Clothes in her size have to be taken down a peg or two too though.
I've noticed the growing trend of midrif tops, booty cheek shorts, and halters in the KIDS section!

I avoid all that by simply saying that all that isn't ladylike for a young girl and she rolls with it. She still gets to give her input by choosing the loudest colors imaginable, but I know that realisticly, this will definatly become an issue.

I've noticed who KFC and Churches always boast about their BIGGER BETTER pieces of bird.....We all knew it wasn't natural, but me being honest .....I've fed some of that garbage to my child too.

I decided to stop the fast food (eventhough she rarely got it anyway)and was cooking up a storm with my store bought groceries that turned out to be just as bad!

Nothing's safe anymore unless I break out my soil and seeds to grow my own.



[This message has been edited by exquizit (edited May 02, 2001).]

[Eclipse]

Originally posted by AKA2D '91:
Also, our great-grandparents (some of us, cause some Great G-parents are 50 years old LOL) didn't have conditions like diabetes, heart disease and all these ailments, cause they didn't eat all of those processed foods, foods bought in the stores. They ate the food THEY grew.

Think about that too!

Also AKA2D, our grandparents were out there WORKING for that food, while kids today only know how to work their fingers to change channels on the remote or to navigate their PlayStation or Sega or whatever is popular now! We still want to get those hearty breakfast meals with grits w/butter, sausage, eggs, biscuits, etc that they needed to sustain them for the entire day when we ain't doing a lick of work!

[mccoyred]

Gurl, why are children in my sons' classes (my boys are 4 and 6) eating these Lunchables on the regular? The parents might as well send a salt shaker for lunch. Horrible!

Originally posted by AKAtude:
I was in the grocery store and was curious about the nutritional content of those Oscar Mayer Lunchables. Ok, why was the sodium content like 800 or 900 mgs!!!???? We should only have 2,800 mgs a day!!!!!!! That is ridiculous. But parents are steadily feeding their children these foods that could lead to problems later on in life.

AKA2D is right. Something is in the milk!!!

I also feel you on the hormones in the food. These children with adult bodies are being deprived of their childhood.


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[toocute]

Originally posted by AKAtude:
I was in the grocery store and was curious about the nutritional content of those Oscar Mayer Lunchables. Ok, why was the sodium content like 800 or 900 mgs!!!???? We should only have 2,800 mgs a day!!!!!!! That is ridiculous. But parents are steadily feeding their children these foods that could lead to problems later on in life.

YES....I noticed the sodium content also. They are also LOADED with fat.

[preciousjeni]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
[B]I am25 years old and during my first year teaching high school, I was repeatedly asked for my hall pass (keep in mind this is while wearing a business suit and carrying a TEACHER's EDITION BOOK) and I was asked to the prom

I, too, am 25 years old. I sub at local high schools and I'm CONSTANTLY getting asked for a hall pass...they don't know me all that well since I don't sub very much. It's a TRIP!

[nikki1920]

A lot of the early development can also be attributed to overall better health, but I agree that there is something in the water..

[preciousjeni]

A friend of mine caught a statutory rape charge for a 15 year old girl who said she was 20. It's really sad!

[AKA2D '91]

Originally posted by preciousjeni
I, too, am 25 years old. I sub at local high schools and I'm CONSTANTLY getting asked for a hall pass...they don't know me all that well since I don't sub very much. It's a TRIP!

LOL. Just a note that this thread started in 2001. LOL That was 2 years ago.

[preciousjeni]

Originally posted by AKA2D '91
LOL. Just a note that this thread started in 2001. LOL That was 2 years ago.

I know But, I thought it was funny that other people have the same problem.

[pointNclick]

It's all of the dayum McDonalds, Wendy's and other mass produced foods with all kinds of chemicals in them... geesh! I equate it to the same concept as chickens and cattle being "fattened" with new imporved "grains" and "feeds." Same way they are pumping the animals up, our children are being pumped up.

Parents should feed their kids real home cooked meals, not send them to Mickey D's for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Then kids would look like kids and not grown adults.

*as I stroll out of the room, chewing on a MacDonald's french fry*

[GeekyPenguin]

Actually, I doubt this has much to do with hormones. We didn't eat fast food in my household when I was young, nor was I allowed to drink soda, and I experienced a lot of the things described here. It's called "precocious puberty" and there are drugs that can be used to stop it should it become too large of a problem.

[nikki1920]

Good point. I remember reading an article a while ago that was discussing the "increase" in early puberty. The scientists attributed the lowering age of menarche to the increasing health of girls.