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"  With the new year and all the inevitable focus on weight loss and resolutions to get in shape, we started thinking about overweight and obese kids. What do you do when it&amp;#039;s your child that may be the one who needs to lose weight? Many a Lifetime movie has been made about the overbearing mom who tries to get her daughter to lose weight and ends up driving her to developing an eating disorder. With childhood obesity tripling in the past 30 years according to the CDC, it&amp;#039;s an issue many parents are grappling with right now. How do you tackle such a sensitive subject with your child without hurting his or her self-esteem? Take the poll and tell us if you&amp;#039;d ever put your child on a diet. Leave your reasons why or why not in the comments section. Check back Friday for the results.   poll by twiigs.com   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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