I’ve just seen the big lump story. What the actual fuck?
I’m seeing first hand what damage those comments can make to toddlers with my first born. He was a Michelin baby and a chunky toddler. We’ve had so many comments from family/friends to him about how big he was, chunky etc and now he’s 9 he’s started saying he’s worried about his ‘chunky arms’ and ‘big cheeks’ (he’s a fucking bean pole!) but it 100% affects them as it’s ingrained and they can’t disassociate between baby and childhood
I always say he was just gorgeous but I wish I had stepped in much earlier on as I didn’t realise
You can tell Alf gets pulled away from Ada and called a big lump if he tries to hug her. I just can’t