Web MD – Siobhan Harris
“I actually couldn’t believe it when I got a letter telling me my 10 year old daughter was very overweight,” says mum Terri. “It made me cry to be honest. I didn’t tell her as I knew it would upset her too, and I didn’t want to give her a complex. I’d never thought of her as overweight just at that puppy fat stage, which I just thought she’d grow out of,” adds Terri. Children in Reception (aged 4 or 5) and Year 6 (aged 10 or 11) are weighed and measured at school as part of the National Child Measurement Programme. You can opt your child out of it if you’d prefer. (more)