Our mealtime rules are pretty lax. DD8 can basically eat whatever she likes, so long as she's getting enough nutrition. She pushes her plate away at most meals.
All we ask is:
- If it's something new, TRY IT.
- If you don't care for what mom has made, you can select anything within these boundaries: it's healthy, and it's quick to prepare.
- Approval for any dessert is based on whether you've consumed enough nutritious food for the day, or whether you're saving all that room for junk.
By the standards of her age group, she'd be considered overweight, but only because the standards don't consider body composition. She's active (lots of free play, soccer, gymnastics), and she packs on a lot of lean muscle.
BMI is beyond useless, but that's what we still use today to track obesity rates.
