Originally Posted by nkfrench

My parents were raised during the Great Depression and had the mindset that healthy babies were well-fed and "pleasingly plump".
My mom was convinced that a good mother should make sure that her children were well-nourished and not "skinny".

So it isn't just a recent thing that parents don't see overweight/obesity in their kids.

Most of my peers had younger parents born after the Depression and had a very different view of what a healthy person should look like. Thin was in.

I was the 2nd fattest girl in my high school, 15 years old, 5'5" and 140#, class of 400 students.
It was socially unacceptable and I dealt with all sorts of criticism throughout my school days - remarks that I was a big fat slob, classmates assuming I was stupid. There were other factors, but weight (being "different") certainly was a roadblock to making friendships.

That would be a below-average height-weight for the high school I drive by these days. Shocking how many of the kids appear morbidly obese.
A lot of the kids are gathering before school at the dairy store across the street where you can buy fast-food (breakfast sandwiches/burritos, hamburgers, fries, soft drinks and all sorts of ice cream treats).
Whatever happened to feeding a decent breakfast to kids at home then letting them walk/ride a bike together to school?
I do have to say that my parents would never feed us most of the products sold at a fast food restaurant.