Question by vegan & proud: How do I tell my daughter she is too fat to be a cheerleader?
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Answer by Tracey
Why do you need to? If she can do the work, she will pass the try-outs. If she can’t, she won’t pass, and she will have learned a lesson that we don’t always get what we want in life.
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You probably won’t need to – I am sure that someone will who cares less for her feelings.
Tell her to try out for the color guard, that’s usually where the fat girls end up.
Do not be the one to break her dreams you are the one she will need when it happens.
I don’t think it’s a requirement nowadays for all cheerleaders to be thin. If she is attractive facially and a little plump, encourage it. She will get exercise practicing for try-outs, and even if she doesn’t make it, she will have tried. She might make it, and that leads to popularity and more exercise. Do not ever call your daughter fat. It lowers a young girl’s self-esteem greatly and really hurts. I was “fat” as a teen and now people are envious of my slim/normal figure.
Cheerleaders can be overweight actually, just because social standards have a certain apparent outline of perfect physique required for cheerleading doesn’t mean it is actually followed. People are much more open-minded than you give them credit for. So long as your daughter has the skill required for cheerleading then there is no true problem and she would have as much chance as any other girl. Let her try out, and then you needn’t hurt her feelings, she’ll either get it or she wont.
omg, rubbish parent alert. instead of telling her she’s too fat to do something, encourage something else, idiot.
if she is too fat still let her because you dont know that maybe she is better than the leader so instead of hurting her feelings let her join the tryouts maybe she will pass but if she didnt please tell herthis”better luck next time” or while vacation let her practise with a trainer rather than to call her a dreamer.
Please do not tell her that. You could cause your daughter to fall into an eating disorder trap. Instead you should encourage her. If she makes the team, she’ll have an activitity that will build her self esteem and she’ll be reguarly engaged in physical tasks that will help to keep herself lean and fit.
How about if you offer to help her “train” for being a cheerleader instead. Then you wont hurt her feelings, you will both get in shape and you will strengthen your relationship.
So tell me are you smart enough to be a mother ? ouch that hurt didn’t it ? hmmmm ? see how she may feel … let life be the teacher allow your child to aim at whatever ideals or in some cases crazy ideas she has … be there to pick her up when she falls let the sensibility and freewill spreed like the wings of an Icarus, allow her spirit to sore … or fly into the sun …. whatever happens she will have grown by her experience that’s the point to everything,
Why the hell did you let her get fat??? That’s a form of child abuse allowing your children to get fat is your fault, you provide the food that she puts in her stomach, you taught her her eating habits and she would never have got fat in the first place if you had brought her up to respect food and enjoy food. I blame the parents when a child is fat and wonder if when they are rewarding a child with food, do they ever stop to wonder how it feels to be the fat kid at school. You have basically put your child in the firing line for bullies by feeding her too much or not being educated enough to know that if you eat too much you get fat!! (unless of course the child has an illness that causes weight gain). Bet you’re fat too??
I don’t think your question is real anyway as no parent would want to discourage a child from doing any form of exercise especially if she is fat.
Why don’t you let her try out and figure it out for herself? Encourage her! The worst course of action is to try to prevent her from doing something she wants to do.
Stop right there!!!
Don’t you know that it’s not acceptable or politically correct to criticize your children’s healthiness, weight, or eating habits???
What kind of freak parent are you?!? Imagine the nerve, actually attempting to educate your child on the dangers of obesity!!! Instead, you must continue to indulge her every whim, giving her Twinkies and Ding-Dongs whenever she asks for them. Also, be sure to take her to eat fast food about 62 times each week.
Just to be safe, though, get her a Diet Coke with her supersized combo meal. Good luck!
Don’t, and that is not nice. Do you want you daughter to have low self-esteem for the rest of her life mom?
Just let her fail, you don’t have to say she’s too fat.
you don’t.
that what the coach is for.
and if that doesn’t work, her peers will certainly set her straight
Let me guess? You were a quarterback on your high school football team years back? Right? See, that’s why I always think football teams in high school are such jerks because you are too embarrassed of your daughter all because she isn’t as thin as the cheerleaders you banged in your high school after the games during your ” glory days “.