I feel really bad for Karlind Dunbar. The 6-year-old girl in this story doesn't want to eat after reading a memo attached to her report card, saying she is in the 80th percentile. She thinks she is being punished for overeating.
When you are 6, you have plenty of growth spurts to come, and judging by the picture, she looks sad, not fat at all.
As if that's bad enough, now she is in The New York Times with this story.
The picture in The New York Times doesn't do her justice. This picture (above), via the International Herald Tribune, paints a better picture of poor Karlind at the dinner table. Yes, children should be more concerned about eating and nutrition. But they should have some fun, too.
Photo credit: Ryan Collerd for The New York Times
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