Scrawny Kids

Overweight children are always making the news.

What we seldom hear about is skinny kids. The kind of kids that mothers with chubby kids long to feed and one look from the doctor or nurses almost always mean a prescription for vitamins.

Mothers of skinny kids love to trade dramatic stories of how poor our kids’ appetites are – from one who eats only vegetables to another who takes only fish – to one who tops it all, a child who refuses everything except rice and soup….!

What we would do to make them improve their appetite and we have tried a lot. But we are resigned to the fact that as long as they are healthy, which they are, we shall blame it on genetic that will hopefully outgrow itself.