She Called Her Brother A Weak Parent For Letting His 14-Year-Old Daughter Get To Weigh Over 200 Pounds
This 35-year-old woman’s brother, who is 37, is a single father, and she really does think he’s an “absolutely amazing” dad sometimes.
“But other times, I think he makes just the entirely wrong decisions and tries to be too lax,” she said.
For some context, he has a 14-year-old daughter. And rather than acting like a parent, she believes that her brother tries to act like “too much of a friend” to his daughter.
Just last weekend, for instance, her brother casually dropped a very concerning piece of information while they were just chatting.
Apparently, he “nonchalantly” told her that his daughter now weighs over 200 pounds.
“He worded it as like he may need to look into making changes to what she eats and may look into getting her to exercise more,” she recalled.
She, on the other hand, thought it was obvious that his daughter needed to make some lifestyle changes. So, she actually accused her brother of acting like a “weak parent” and told him that he needed to make changes – not just “maybe” look into it.
She also added that there was no way his daughter should be over 200 pounds at her age.
“And I felt dumb saying it since it was obvious, but I told him that that’s just way too big for her age,” she explained.
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Well, her brother got upset and swore he wasn’t a weak parent. Rather, he just hates seeing his daughter sad and knows that the lifestyle changes will make her upset – because, right now, she’s a happy kid.
However, she pointed out how his daughter was, of course, happy since she got to eat whatever she wanted and as much as she wanted.
“Nobody asks her to exercise, and nobody tells her that they aren’t going to buy her bigger clothes, so she has to do what she can to fit into what she has,” she added.
But, her brother felt like she was just “painting” his daughter as a “fat, lazy, spoiled brat” and asked her not to do that. So, she tried to clarify how she never said those things.
Nonetheless, in the wake of their conversation, she can’t help but wonder if calling her brother a weak parent was the right way to handle this situation.
Do you think her brother needed to hear the tough truth? Or should she have been less harsh? How can she balance being both honest and supportive in the future?
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