We deal with obesity and families all the time especially with children who are over weight. My one recommendation for families who have children that is over weight is to do not ever in any way's you perform identify to them that they are over weight. Don't make it an issue, don't put them on the diet, don't do any of that. Try to look counter productive, but what you need to do instead is change the family dynamics. You can have 2 skinny parents with an over weight child but I can promise you that the things that they are eating and there's activity that they need to be doing. So when you have a child that is overweight the one thing that you don't want to do is draw attention to their weight problem. That's not recommended at all. in 2007, 12 out of every hundred thousand children under the age of 12 had type 2 diabetes. But 2700 of them had an eating disorder. So that's not what you want to create. Don't ever draw attention to their weight because you will create an eating disorder if they don't have one already. So what do you do instead? You change the entire family to save that 1 child. You completely change what's being eaten and the activity because that's the only way to change their lifestyle. And not make them crazy. If you make it about the date, if you restrict their calories, if you turn it into what you have to do what happens is that they feels like that they have to lose weight to be loved and that's not the message you want to send to children.