Yep,
that's what I meant. I've had a couple of friends with kids who were underweight
and needed medical intervention in order to eat or digest properly. That's just
my usual caveat thrown in there. Most "scrawny" kids are wonderfully normal and
probably a lot stronger, pound for pound, than I am!
Karen
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As far as the junk food; toddlers need surprisingly little food
volume and variety isn't a concern yet. As long as he's not underweight (if
he is, this is a medical issue instead) then I would offer a selection of
foods and stand back.
If a baby's on the low end of the
scale, don't forget the scale belongs to the AMA and has to do with
statistics, rather than with the health or realities of individual humans.
?There can't be an average without some people at the extremes, and some
are naturally at the extremes from genetics, and they are at their OWN
"normal" (midrange for their own body's development, as their body has no idea
about other organisms of the same age).
I'm guessing by "underweight"
maybe the writer meant unhealthily scrawny or dangerously thin. ?
Holly seems scrawny to me. ?She always has. ?But she's
strong and active and so I just don't worry about her bones showing. ?I'm
sure it will pass sooner than she'd like it to (given the prevailing
prejudices in the land in which she lives).
Sandra
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