Rule 19: Your child?s Body Mass Index is nobody?s business but yours

My daughter is desperately excited by her upcoming fifth birthday ? not least because apparently she will ?look like six?. She?s not daft; she knows that the labels on the clothes that I buy her now read ?Age 6-7?, and that she is taller and heavier than some of her friends.

My daughter is not fat ? although according to recent research from Newcastle University, eviscerated by Tim Black on spiked, as a parent I would be the last person to admit that she was. But she isn?t a skinnymalinks either. I?m quite pleased about this because I think she looks healthy and beautiful, and my instincts tell me that denying children pudding and sending them to bed hungry is neither necessary nor desirable in this day and age. Click here for full article.