She was practically FORCING him to eat more. He wasn't asking for a second snack she told him to eat it. It doesn't matter what kind of food you're giving him too much is too much. A five year old does NOT a need to be eating that much that frequently.
+Heather Mueller doesn't it seem as if "food equals love" is such a dangerous combination? That mom has no "off" button and continues to offer him disgustingly huge portions 24/7. It's all her fault but yet the boy will suffer the consequences for life.
+Heather Mueller yep, asking him if he wanted strawberries, or a banana, then it turns into a huge bowl of cereal with fruit, he wasn't even asking for food.
Uh YA...I don't know why he's morbidly obese...my 23 year old son doesn't eat a third of what that 5 year old eats. And none of that junk. When he had the cake he also had a big bowl of chocolate candies ?Maltesers.
kick a freakin ball for the kid and make him chase it ,until he gets tired ,throw the wheelchair in the bin ! They are offering him food he isnt asking ! Kick the Granny out too!
Tall Random Guy she wants a sumo superstar kid. Apparently she's a single mother and she hopes Leon will get a better life through getting famous. I believe thats why she agreed to film the episode even thought she isnt planning to listen to the doctor, for exposure.
Well I’m doing an assignment for college and I’m having a hard time trying to under what mom and grandma are saying... I’m not being disrespectful but I can’t understand well. The captions from TH-cam doesn’t help either. 😕
Awful this poor child is so abused ,shit food and shit up bringing , the parents need a camera on them full time , and omg a wheelchair he’s fat not disabled
She offered him the wheel chair. He wasn’t over tired and asking for it. She needs to push him to do the walk home. The wheel chair is just ridiculous.
Boobalopbop right!? same with the food ..he didn't ask for a snack after the cake , and didn't ask for dinner a few mins after that . She offered it and made it seem like it was time to eat for him . shes insane .
Bria Humble shit I didn't have to watch more than 4 minutes of these before guessing that she did that at home too. Just caring what SHE feels his body can do instead of listening to what he is saying and showing his body can do. Damn the kid is 5 years old....not 5 months.
beyond her total lack of common sense, she's also guilty of believing she's smarter than all these doctors/other professionals. Like saying it's "an undiagnosed medical condition" even though EVERYONE tells her it's not. Trust me, this woman does NOT have a doctorate.
C Lee I can't believe she's got another kid! How much you wanna bet her daughter has some other incarnation of a "mystery" disease or some sort of mental issue/behavioral issue that she exaggerates. This is a horrific way to grow up, she shouldn't have those kids.
Leon is not asking to rest, but ma and grandma are asking him if he wants to sit in the wheelchair till he finally says yes. His future will be on My 600 pound life if something doesn’t wake up his mother. Poor kid!
KW they act as if he can't make decisions for himself on if he wants to sit down or if he is hungry. They act like his is 5 months instead of 5 years old.
"how much exercise can you put on a five year old" BRO. HE'S 5. They're supposed to be filled with energy!! the parent is the one who's limiting his activity ... the kid was running around and he didn't even ask to stop but the parents made him sit before he was tired ... how is he going to increase his activity level if the parent makes him sit out after a certain time everytime, without giving him time to develop the necessities to keep being active ...
+kafuka megumi Yes! She said when I can see him starting to breath heavily then he needs to stop. I don't think she's ever exercised as she doesn't realise that's what happens naturally when you exert yourself.
kafuka megumi I noticed that too. He seemed willing to walk but she made him sit. I hope that poor kid lost weight. I wonder where his dad is in all this?
I hate that woman! She says it's genetics and she's right. It's her. She's giving him way too much food, blames it on genetics, gives him a wheel chair. Sure he does get exercise, but not enough!
Hating her won't save that poor boy. She needs support to adjust her role as a carer. She wants him dependent on her. She needs another form of that, be a football coach or something. This is a life or death matter. Social Services need to intervene before he learns anymore life-crippling habits from her.
She Says, " I'm Not going to do This," and "I'm Not going to do That!". She keeps Doing what She's Doing, She Will Be Burying Her Son Sooner Rather Than Later!!! Yes! This is Child Abuse! Instead Of Starving Her Son She's Stuffing Him With High Calorie Food and Junk!!! She is Also Setting Him Up For Emotional Problems, When His Classmates Are Teasing and Ridiculing Him For Being The Size Of a Prized Hog!!! Get a Clue Lady! This Poor Child's Future Will Be Filled With Tons Of Medical Problems and Emotional Problems!!! If His Weight Doesn't Kill Him, Then Suicide Attempts For Being So Unhappy Will!!! You Are Setting Him Up For Future Failure's!!! I Feel So Bad For This Youg Man!!! Sadly, If Something Isn't Done Now, He May Not Live Too Be a Young Man!!! 😖
Catherine H portion control is important, but I don't think that this is the problem. Normally you can eat tons of vegetables and healthy food without gaining weight.
Hat dich michtzuinteressieren bæ dude she's giving him fruit not vegtibles. Fruit has sugar which means more calories and the kid is just sitting on his ass as she feeds him. She need to let her kid get things on his own.
"It's genetic" No 5 year old should weigh as much as average 17 year old. Hopefully he is able to loss the weight and live a happier, healthier, and longer life.
What video are you watching. She is giving this child too much food. First, he ate cake and grapes, After that, he ate cereal with fruit. Next, he ate a plate of food that could feed a grown man. Do you know what the word genetic means? How is he going to lose weight if she continues to feed him this way?
Michelle they were quoting the mother when she said “it’s genetic.” It’s not possible for a 5 year old to weigh as much as a 17 year old just because of genetics
@@cristadulguime3496Incorrect. Prader-Willi syndrome doesn't *make* a person fat, it makes it so they literally always feel hungry, and in attempt to satiate themselves, people with the disorder eat themselves fat. Proper management of the disorder includes not overeating
The mother’s an enabler, constantly asking him if he wanted to sit in the wheelchair when he was walking perfectly fine. She’s so blind from the harm she’s doing him, and if she continues her son’s going to have a hard life. He’ll end up hating and resenting her because she never intervened when she could have.
Shaba Laba Ding Dong Shes a feeder...some people just like to feed and feed and feed the people close to them. Whats sad is that this child isnt even getting a choice to refuse..the way she asked him which fruit he wanted wasnt a "hey do you want a fruit?" It was "WHICH ONE DO YOU WANT??!" she didnt even give him a chance to say he wasnt hungry.
This makes me so angry. This poor kid didn't even get a chance at a healthy life. As someone who has lost a lot of weight, I wish I had never been fat in the first place.
alexis mckenzie Mom's behavior/attitude/delusions could be consistent with someone who has Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. Sadly, she could be totally aware she's harming him - she gets a lot of attention for having a "sick" child. I think she gets off on being the poor victim of this child with health problems. Put her in jail!
@@meganvictoriakearns7529 Hi Megan I was thinking the same thing and posted it before I seen you posted it too. Yes I do believe she actually gets a charge out of the attention she gets from this poor kids morbid obesity . Probably takes him home after a doctor visit and bakes him a cake for a snack.
The mother clearly have some psychological problems, she's the one who's makimg him that way stuffing him with junk food and stoping him from being active. I think she's doing it on purpose because she wants her child to rely on her forever and thus she will feel needed or important.. Just sickening.
Something is not right when a person declares their opinion to be a fact, with zero evidence backing it up. Also, anyone who ALWAYS dismisses every single bit of contrary evidence is insane.
In Spain too. They removed a kid from their parent's care saying it was child abuse. They were right. It is! My daughter is 5 and she has more energy than us which is the way a 5 year old should be!
*Bangs head against wall* The problem is so obvious. It's one plate of food right after another! It doesn't matter that the food itself is healthy, he's eating too much of it!
Renee N. or the big and beautiful line some like to toss around, if trying to excuse morbid obesity. what this is, is dangerous and a powder keg set to blow.
Janice Whalen sorta kinda definitley yes. Feeds him to much and refuses him exercise (walking) shes clearly an unfit mother despite her intentions. Some re education on the matter on behalf of the state would help.
No ! They need intervention definitely not removal as that is more traumatising for a 5 year old , it’s a very difficult situation, the mother needs the threat of social services perhaps but they both need help, she’s a feeder and the boy is getting a form of abuse
The way she kept saying “no”... “no”... to perfectly logical arguments thrown in her face made me want to fucking drop kick her. This poor child. I hope the UK version of CPS steps in and he’s able to go live with a relative that will give him proper nutrition, get him on an exercise plan, and keep him closely monitored by doctors and he gets to a healthy weight and can run around and just be a kid, away from his abusive mother.
Our AUsome Life fancy seeing you here! Hope all the kids are good. {: Lol I was clearly very pissed 2 weeks ago. Documentaries like this upset me. And seriously, poor kid. That’s not a way to live. I hope he’s doing better and maybe the documentary makers have offered family therapy or something, I know documentary makers often try to help a bit.
maybe she has some sort of chemical imbalance or something to be treated with therapy, not a reason to completely take a relationship and that kid isnt the gov'ts kld its HER kid. Feel me?
She doesn’t deserve “her” kid if she can’t parent correctly. There’s 10 factors that only slightly vary state to state to determine the fitness of a parent. She absolutely is not upholding several of them and CPS needs to step in.
This woman is ruining her son some people shouldn't be let near kids. You can't tell her anything! There has to be a medical diagnosis because she is not wrong! DELUSIONAL! WAKE UP LADY! OBESE PEOPLE DON'T LIVE LONG! there's a lot of sugar in fruit
Monika Gawlik yes I realy do you’ll do anything to keep your child happy, but she’s giving him the wrong attention, he’s obviously happy when he eats so their for she gives him more food, never in a million years is this child abuse
"How much more activity have I got to increase on a 5 year old ? " Kiddie should be running, skipping, playing hide and seek or make believe in the garden, not wheeled in chair between home and school. God help us...
Tiara Edwards still that kid weighs nearly as much as i do, and I'm nearly 4 times as old as he is. In the end, you can't gain more weight than you put into your body. You're body can't.magically create energy to make into fat.
This Mother is such a stubborn person. She is obviously feeding her son way to much.She is the problem, and her son will never lose weight if she doesn't listen to the professionals and take their advise instead of being so bloody minded.
iirc there was an episode of Jo Frost's show "Extreme Parenting", and it dealt with food issues with kids. I think Frost said something about how it's a common problem, where parents don't realize that they're giving inappropriate portion sizes to their kids, and then they're either A) mad when the kid obeys their natural sense of satiety and won't eat anymore, or B) surprised when they ignore that feeling of fullness and end up gaining weight.
mother thinks shes right . not willing to listen and her son is suffering, shes over feeding him and she doesn't see shes not helping him but she thinks she is
Exactly the mother is to be blame I control everything my child eats cause he's a child,he shouldn't be having bday cake the mother should put her bloody feet down .
This reminds me a little bit about my own diet and weight. When I was a kid. My mother fed me a lot of food. Big portions and also a little too often snacks and such. It was okay for me until second grade but I didn’t know better I was only a kid. I saw all my other classmates and how much more smaller they were than me. And I started questioning my mother why I was so much bigger than my friends, and she said it was “ my genetics”.. but it clearly wasn’t. My weight led to insecurity, self hate and people took advantage of it. Especially the bullies. Eventually this led to bulimia and depression. Which still hunts my body.. Please! Feed your kids proper food, in regulated portions!! This can make the future of your child much brighter in many ways!!
I share an almost exact same story. The self destruction that can result from desperately trying to lose weight is terribly sad. Don't burden your child for life by overfeeding.
It breaks my heart to see this mother giving that much candy to her obese son. She is supposed to lead him into a happy adolescence but instead she is distroying his life from the very beginning!
She brings a wheelchair and keeps encouraging him to sit down. She states that she won't allow him to continue if he's winded. As a between-meals snack she gives him a banana, a slice of cake, 4 wheetabix with another banana, strawberries, and milk. That's the calories for an entire meal right there and that's JUST a snack. I don't care how healthy something is, it's still calories. Also, how the expletive is he going to learn when his body is hungry if she's constantly pushing food on him like a crack dealer pushes crack? At least wait until he asks for food...just doing that alone would help. I also haven't seen him drink any water. Then you feed him dinner and he's the only one at the table. Families should eat together if possible. His serving size for starches is also way off. The peas are actually reasonably calorific & the mash certainly is...especially if she's added milk or fat to it. There should always be a cup of water available as thirst can be mistaken by the body as hunger ...so you eat and then you still feel the same so you eat some more. The beverage with the meal is probably fruit juice when it should be water. SHE is a major part of the problem. What I don't understand is why the doctor isn't telling her to do a food/calorie diary for him so that she can see just how many calories she's feeding him.
Assuming the cake is 100 calories (probably more) , his in between meal snacks come up to 630 calories. Im a 19 year old and i eat 1200-1500 a day. A five year old should be eating maxxx maxxx 900 cals (probably less but i dint know for sure). So yea those healthy snacks are still way too much. If youre snacking on nearly 700 cals , you’re inevitably gonna overeat
Lol and i forgot to add milk which is 103 cals per cup ( around how much youd put in cereal, maybe even less!). So yea this kid is eating 800 cals in snacks when thats what he should be eating a day!!
Malka Amar Reich according to the national institute of health, the caloric intake for children 4-8 who are not active Is 1200 to 1400 calories compared to the 1600 to 2000 calories an active child (which is pretty much most kids) of the same age should consume
I agree it is sad. He should be made to take walks and also smaller portions. I am an adult and he weighs more than me. I can only eat mini meals throughout my day.
And even if he has no friends. I have no friends, and my brother and sister never want to go outside, so I exercise by myself. So there is no excuse for him not having exercise. I used to use my lack of people to be with as an excuse but I soon quit the bullshitting.
This is absolutely disgusting. The mom should be charged for child abuse, because a 5 year old shouldn’t weigh as much as an average 17 year old should weigh!
The mother is over feeding that baby It makes no sense for a 5 year old to weigh just as much as a teenager she needs to seek counseling soon before he grows up and start having all types of heart problems god bless that child
Cake before dinner? And the bowl on the sofa is filled with candies, while kid is watching TV? She just does't know how to say "no" to her own kid. I also did't notice dad on the picture? Is it possible she is just overprotecting and loving her son in a fear of loosing his love and attention? Just seems like mum needs some really good advice and example set for her from other mums, who have been in similar situation. At this point it feels she is afraid to let him go and be a child....
Helluminati I think most of these fat-o-genic parents have an eating disorder themselves. Those fat cells he is developing will be with him the rest of his life, their job being to stay filled with fat. He will never regain a normal metabolism.
She's feeding him good healthy food but its the size of the portions thats the problem......bloody Weetabix wiv fruit then an hour later a big bloody dinner???? At 5 years old!!! My 10 year old don't eat as much as this lad does!!! The mum is the problem not the kid......but in her mind listening to her she's doing nothing wrong........she is by piling his plate up high.....no wonder hesc10 stone at 5!
Oh wow, just the amount of denial is scary.... that dinner she gave him would be pressing up to big for even me and I'm almost 21, not 5!! and that was after those snacks. I feel so bad for Leon, but it's hard to sympathetic with his mother. Even when someone is offering her an answer and telling her that its far to much she cant face it. she acts like it's a personal attack on her and her mothering. There is nothing wrong with admitting you're overfeeding your child, as long as you move forward and make changes then that really only reflects well on your parenting.... but getting defensive and acting like you've never made a mistake as a parent does reflect poorly. Never put your pride over your child's health and life expectancy!!
+Toscalily yeah exactly and this is with an entire film crew there watching there every move. imagine when the mom can't be bothered cooking and decides to get KFC 0.0
+Toscalily So fucking true!!!! I made a video yesterday on overweight children and what I think the parents role is. And at the end I actually said ho its OK to hold your hands up, admit you cant do it alone and accept help. And really , she ISNT accepting the precious help she is luck to have access to!!
Why didn't she let him walk all the way home? He seemed totally fine, he obviously wanted to run and play. Instead of doing a fucking puzzle take him to the park or a Chuck E Cheese and let him have fun. She's unbelievable. She should track his calories, not overfeed him healthy food.
Take him to a park and feed him some fucking celery sticks, carrot sticks, sliced apples, salad not drenched in dressing, steamed broccoli/cauliflower florets, sautéed green beans, lean meats and limited carbs and fats. Chuck E Cheese will only enable feeding him large quantities of fat foods!
Most conversations she has with him is her asking if he wants this food or that food. She feeds him so much! Doesn't matter how healthy the foods are, there is too much of it and so constantly she's feeding him like how can u be that thick as to not understand that logic and be so defensive, consider it and see what happens to his weight
I know someone who has been obese forever because her parents started her bad habits. As a 4 year old they were feeding her 2 eggs, 2 pieces of toast, fruit, and bacon for a weekend breakfast. I don't even think I could finish that now and I'm almost 25.
He is freaking adorable. It's horrible what Leon's mother is teaching him-- to eat and sit. He will suffer if nothing changes. This is why I want to help obese children... I wished I had help when I was little and obese!
Blood tests carried out to determine if Leon, the little boy who was the same weight as the average 17-year-old, had an underlying genetic cause have thus far came back negative. Some test results are outstanding. His doctor said Leon, now six, is gradually losing weight.
There are bunch of people in the comment section (mainly kids) who are saying that they're connected with him via Facebook and that he's kept a lot of the weight off, but that he's still overweight.
You gonna wait for his Breathing to be effected before you stop but your 5 y/o is using a wheel chair coz you made him too fat to walk distance...shameful disgraceful mom!!! You need charges brought on you for child endangerment!!!
She stops him as sold as he starts breathing hard. That's rediculouse. You can't lose weight if your not allowed to push yourself at all. Weight loss starts when the heart rate hits a certain point I believe. So his exercise will never be enough.
(Paraphrasing) Reporter: You are feeding him good foods, but could you be feeding him to much?? Mom: No, no. Can you spell 'denial'? Also, why is mom following Leon around with a wheelchair?? She's the one who keeps asking if he wants his chair. He's not slowing down. He's actually running along. She's crippling him.. :'(
Jason Perryman she prods him to sit down. Literally showing him an easy escape on his normal walk home. Hell if they are going to make him use a wheelchair make him go uphill by himself
she probably associates food with love so she feeds him alot because she feels she's taking care of him that way. and he loves her back so he wont deny the food because he knows it makes her happy to see him eat??
michelle s. That and her being overbearing and coddling towards him with the whole wheel chair bit. The whole time he was walking they kept on asking if he'd like to sit in the chair. She's treating him like he's still an infant.
This kid- and so many more like him- is NOT going to be healthy until he gets away from his mom. It's clear that she's coddling him, and feeding him way too much food. He cries because he's learned that she can't stand it and will stuff his mouth to stop it. It's all a sign that she has a lot of anger and emotional troubles she has not dealt with. She needs HELP!! And she needs to break out of the denial. And WHERE'S HIS DAD?!? Absent, as usual. I feel bad for this boy.... He's going to have a really hard life and probably die young from diabetes or heart issues. Wake up, mum!!
I also gain weight very fast but thats no excuse to look like that. Im normal weight but I have to look at what I eat. Healthy food but in normal portions. Not like that!
Michelle Mollencupp I don't know about in other countries but in the U.S it can be considered child neglect and abuse if their is no underlying medical reason as to the weight gain. They would remove the child into a safer situation. What some parents don't realize is that this will eventually cause harm now or down the road as the child becomes older. Whether they lose the weight or not it as already left its mark on the child.
My family is like this, forcing food on me and asking me to rest even when I'm not tired. Whenever I go on a diet to try and loose the weight, they're asking me to go out to eat and won't leave me alone about eating junk food. I was over one hundred pounds overweight at 12. I'm taking charge now and I've already lost ten pounds in a couple of weeks and I don't play on stopping now! My goal is to have lost thirty pouds by next month! If anybody else is struggling with being overweight, don't give up
peachapla madd Keep it up!! When my cousin was was 9 he was 70 lbs overweight and his mom (my aunt is his stepmom) she was like, he’s only a few pounds overweight, let alone very overweight
A wheelchair?? Seriously lady, he can walk home from school without needing to sit down. He obviously has a addiction to foods. She is ultimately hurting her son and probably will suffer not only physical but mental and social problems. This mother is cruel.
She is the one who brings him food and asks him to sit down, not the other way around. He's happily running around or watching TV after a small snack and she keeps peeking in and asking if he wants this or that. It's disgusting behavior on her part.
TamakiKowazoe I know! I absolutely agree with you. He was walking just fine and she asked him if he wanted to get in the wheelchair. I couldn't believe it!! I was appalled at the way she treated him. I think she enjoys having him totally relying and dependent on her.
As someone that has to use a wheelchair due to health issues this has really annoyed me. He was walking perfectly fine and they kept insisting he had to sit down
6:53 "I just wish someone would put a camera in the corner of my house and watch my son. Then come back and tell me I'm doing something wrong. Cause I guarantee they won't find nothing." As she gives him snack after snack 🙄
Latrisha Collins I thought the same thing! I hope they DID put a camera in her house! I hope they got that poor kid into an obesity clinic for children for at least a year! He’d come out normal weight, for sure. This is 7 yrs ago. I’d imagine he’s going thru living hell right now at school if there’s been no intervention. Your heart just breaks for him, right? And statistics are against him, not her, sadly.
Right? And that was when she knew cameras were pointed directly at her and her son... Can you even imagine what she actually feeds him on a normal day when nobody's looking?
That makes me so angry. If Leon would eat healthy food and get exercise as she said than he wouldn’t be obese. These are just poor excuses for her bad parenting 😡
Majority of the kids his age eat the same way as he does,maybe even more.But very very few of them turn out to weigh like Leon.So,genetiics definitely is involved.
I have asthma and I can do more physical activity than this kid without needing my inhaler. But maybe I'm not the best example of what people with breathing difficulties can do because I tend to push myself and I have passed out before so take my comment with a grain of salt. Lol
+Daisy Fields There was a family who had their child taken away because it was overweight, then in foster care put on even more weight. Then it was found to be a medical condition.
Steph Starrett I've got four little kids as well and I could never eat that much either. Neither could my 5 year old or 9 year old. My 5 year old will eat 1/8-1/4 c of protein and 1/4-1/3 c of mashed potatoes and a few scoops of peas approximately for dinner. He moves non-stop all day, cannot get him to hold still. The amount on this kid's plate could feed me and all my kids.
That's the part that drove me CRAZY. She is clearly giving him way too much food--the amount she gave him was what I'd eat in high school when I was swimming competitively for 4 hours/day. It's way too much food for a five year old. And she just stands there saying "No, it's not too much food." Lady, your kid is 10 stone. It's clearly too much food.
Lol she just can't admit she is overfeeding her child it's kinda funny and sad at the same time.. She basically gave him a daily portion of food which an average person eats in user 2h but in her mind 1,000 pounds of pizza ways less then a 1,000 pounds of fruit since fruit is healthy😂
Sad how this Mother can not even receive corrective criticism!! Lady just SHUT YOUR MONTH and LISTEN to what his gentle man is trying to tell you; including your doctor. You are a Stubborn individual and wonder why your Son is So Huge!! Come on now😕
I'm not 100% sure about this, but I just recently came over an article from 2014 mentioning the case of cardiac arrest of a 10 year old in Newcastle, who later subsequently died. Sadly fits the description of Leon, but I may still be wrong here. Horrible parents deserve to be put in jail for life.
dear god, i hope it wasn't this sweet little boy! but it's still tragic whoever it was that passed away. just a sad topic all around. i'm going to go look around right now and see what i can find out. i didn't realized the video was that old.
Knut A. Lilleaas I don't think it was him, the article also mentioned that the parents were long-term drug addicts and while his mother seems a bit crazy, I don't think she was on drugs.
Berglín mist Kristinsdóttir And giving him a whole bunch of chocolate and she gives him way to much food it's like she's not even trying I feel bad but...
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She was practically FORCING him to eat more. He wasn't asking for a second snack she told him to eat it. It doesn't matter what kind of food you're giving him too much is too much. A five year old does NOT a need to be eating that much that frequently.
+Heather Mueller doesn't it seem as if "food equals love" is such a dangerous combination? That mom has no "off" button and continues to offer him disgustingly huge portions 24/7. It's all her fault but yet the boy will suffer the consequences for life.
+Heather Mueller yep, asking him if he wanted strawberries, or a banana, then it turns into a huge bowl of cereal with fruit, he wasn't even asking for food.
True. This hard-headed, ignorant mother needs a reality check.
exactly
Unless it's fruit and veggies and they want it
Wow, she is in denial.
Uh YA...I don't know why he's morbidly obese...my 23 year old son doesn't eat a third of what that 5 year old eats. And none of that junk. When he had the cake he also had a big bowl of chocolate candies ?Maltesers.
knotty1966 I think those were grapes
kick a freakin ball for the kid and make him chase it ,until he gets tired ,throw the wheelchair in the bin ! They are offering him food he isnt asking ! Kick the Granny out too!
Ryu Hayabusa it’s abuse!
Ryu Hayabusa :
ABSOLUTELY!!!
That mother is deluding herself. She's a major factor in it.
The Cat Ate My Shoe she’s the only factor. She buys and prepares the food.
No, she is the factor in it. The child gets food from nowhere except his parents.
The Cat Ate My Shoe He can’t even be blamed for it. He’s 5.
The only factor
@@pisswizard rude
That mom is crazy, she doesn't understand portions.
Tall Random Guy she wants a sumo superstar kid. Apparently she's a single mother and she hopes Leon will get a better life through getting famous. I believe thats why she agreed to film the episode even thought she isnt planning to listen to the doctor, for exposure.
Ignorance... Pure and simple. She's clueless.
she doesn't seem to understand anything, she is completely delusional
Sometimes I wonder what it would be like if you had to pass an intelligence test to become a parent.
Psych eval couldn't hurt, either.
Well I’m doing an assignment for college and I’m having a hard time trying to under what mom and grandma are saying... I’m not being disrespectful but I can’t understand well. The captions from TH-cam doesn’t help either. 😕
“Wouldn’t him not using a wheelchair help him lose weight?”
Mum: “no”
Well she’s lost it
Awful this poor child is so abused ,shit food and shit up bringing , the parents need a camera on them full time , and omg a wheelchair he’s fat not disabled
He is sat there like king Tut and they run around after him ,do a lap round the park then you can have a normal meal and no snacks
Alex Murray simple lock him outside 2 hours a day and he will lose weight
I don't think this woman would know how to tell the truth about something if she tried.
Well more luck with the next one
She offered him the wheel chair. He wasn’t over tired and asking for it. She needs to push him to do the walk home. The wheel chair is just ridiculous.
Boobalopbop right!? same with the food ..he didn't ask for a snack after the cake , and didn't ask for dinner a few mins after that . She offered it and made it seem like it was time to eat for him . shes insane .
Bria Humble shit I didn't have to watch more than 4 minutes of these before guessing that she did that at home too. Just caring what SHE feels his body can do instead of listening to what he is saying and showing his body can do. Damn the kid is 5 years old....not 5 months.
beyond her total lack of common sense, she's also guilty of believing she's smarter than all these doctors/other professionals. Like saying it's "an undiagnosed medical condition" even though EVERYONE tells her it's not. Trust me, this woman does NOT have a doctorate.
C Lee: The fact that I didn't even know she had another child is crazy. I can only imagine the emotional abuse going on as well.
C Lee I can't believe she's got another kid! How much you wanna bet her daughter has some other incarnation of a "mystery" disease or some sort of mental issue/behavioral issue that she exaggerates. This is a horrific way to grow up, she shouldn't have those kids.
He wasn't asking to sit she was asking him to sit.
Leon is not asking to rest, but ma and grandma are asking him if he wants to sit in the wheelchair till he finally says yes. His future will be on My 600 pound life if something doesn’t wake up his mother. Poor kid!
KW they act as if he can't make decisions for himself on if he wants to sit down or if he is hungry. They act like his is 5 months instead of 5 years old.
KW he’s going to be long dead before that
At the rate he’s going you’re probably correct.
KW and at age 10....the mother doesn't want to hear anything she thinks she's perfectly fine in what she's doing to this child
My £600 Life
"how much exercise can you put on a five year old" BRO. HE'S 5. They're supposed to be filled with energy!! the parent is the one who's limiting his activity ... the kid was running around and he didn't even ask to stop but the parents made him sit before he was tired ... how is he going to increase his activity level if the parent makes him sit out after a certain time everytime, without giving him time to develop the necessities to keep being active ...
+kafuka megumi Yes! She said when I can see him starting to breath heavily then he needs to stop. I don't think she's ever exercised as she doesn't realise that's what happens naturally when you exert yourself.
kafuka megumi Exactly! He wanted to run around on the grass! Let him run until he's exhausted - he'll rest and get up again.
kafuka megumi I noticed that too. He seemed willing to walk but she made him sit. I hope that poor kid lost weight. I wonder where his dad is in all this?
Yeah. Kids are supposed to get out of breath. You don't get to sit down when you are a bit out of breath in PE or anything.
that is the issue, she's loving him to death, i really hope the poor lad's health is improving now he's older
I hate that woman! She says it's genetics and she's right. It's her. She's giving him way too much food, blames it on genetics, gives him a wheel chair. Sure he does get exercise, but not enough!
Hating her won't save that poor boy. She needs support to adjust her role as a carer. She wants him dependent on her. She needs another form of that, be a football coach or something. This is a life or death matter. Social Services need to intervene before he learns anymore life-crippling habits from her.
omg, she is the problem, not her son.
Butterfly they should lock her out of the house
Ok but like that doctor is so nice, especially using his toy to make him feel more comfortable
I use to see this doctor when I was young
Oh my gosh hes so cute
Yea. Really nice of the doctor
If the kid ever died of a heart attack the mom will probably like " nah he's just taking a nap."
c21dickcracker Or blame it on genetics
Lol funniest comment
Hahahahahah this made my day
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c21dickcracker LMFAAAAAOOOOOO
Leon's mother is killing him!
She Says, " I'm Not going to do This," and "I'm Not going to do That!". She keeps Doing what She's Doing, She Will Be Burying Her Son Sooner Rather Than Later!!!
Yes! This is Child Abuse!
Instead Of Starving Her Son
She's Stuffing Him With High Calorie Food and Junk!!!
She is Also Setting Him Up For Emotional Problems, When His Classmates Are Teasing and Ridiculing Him For Being The Size Of a Prized Hog!!! Get a Clue Lady! This Poor Child's Future Will Be Filled With Tons Of Medical Problems and Emotional Problems!!! If His Weight Doesn't Kill Him, Then Suicide Attempts For Being So Unhappy Will!!!
You Are Setting Him Up For Future Failure's!!!
I Feel So Bad For This Youg Man!!! Sadly, If Something Isn't Done Now, He May Not Live Too Be a Young Man!!! 😖
karen slater exactly! Perfectly said.
I agree, so sad.
Actually, he's being fed healthy food but in ENORMOUS amounts, and he doesn't get much excersise
PåintThëWørld Actually, too much fruit is very unhealthy because of the amount of sugar in it.
cellogirl11RW yes, I do agree. Cake before dinner is crazy. And proportions are really unbalanced
At 5 years old they have complete control on what they cook for him. Poor kid :(
Lauren Johnson my parents also had control over what i ate when i was 5 but i never got fed shit food
Poor innocent baby :( This is abuse. Absolutely heartbreaking
M.G. I know right!!! This is disgusting!! Honestly those parents should be charged with child abuse!! They are literally killing their child!!!!
M.G. no it's negligence
M.G. but its depressing
8L34CH Flips Negligence is also child abuse.
Genetics what did she sleep with to have porkchop over here
Yes she maybe giving him healthy food but portion control!!!
Catherine H portion control is important, but I don't think that this is the problem. Normally you can eat tons of vegetables and healthy food without gaining weight.
The food isn't really that healthy though. Tonnes of carbs and sugar, doesn't matter if it's natural sugars or not!
Hat dich michtzuinteressieren bæ dude she's giving him fruit not vegtibles. Fruit has sugar which means more calories and the kid is just sitting on his ass as she feeds him. She need to let her kid get things on his own.
People like to act differentl on camera
Sharla Diedrichs fruit isn't bad for you. Yes, fruit has sugar but it is natural sugar.
Ouch this mum is aggressively defensive!!!! Alarm bells!!!!
"It's genetic" No 5 year old should weigh as much as average 17 year old. Hopefully he is able to loss the weight and live a happier, healthier, and longer life.
What video are you watching. She is giving this child too much food. First, he ate cake and grapes, After that, he ate cereal with fruit. Next, he ate a plate of food that could feed a grown man. Do you know what the word genetic means? How is he going to lose weight if she continues to feed him this way?
Michelle they were quoting the mother when she said “it’s genetic.” It’s not possible for a 5 year old to weigh as much as a 17 year old just because of genetics
Actually, there is a genetic disorder called Prader-Willie syndrome that can do just that.
It's interesting how no child in poverty stricken 3rd world countries are struck with this obesity 'gene'.
@@cristadulguime3496Incorrect. Prader-Willi syndrome doesn't *make* a person fat, it makes it so they literally always feel hungry, and in attempt to satiate themselves, people with the disorder eat themselves fat. Proper management of the disorder includes not overeating
The mother’s an enabler, constantly asking him if he wanted to sit in the wheelchair when he was walking perfectly fine. She’s so blind from the harm she’s doing him, and if she continues her son’s going to have a hard life. He’ll end up hating and resenting her because she never intervened when she could have.
Shaba Laba Ding Dong Shes a feeder...some people just like to feed and feed and feed the people close to them. Whats sad is that this child isnt even getting a choice to refuse..the way she asked him which fruit he wanted wasnt a "hey do you want a fruit?" It was "WHICH ONE DO YOU WANT??!" she didnt even give him a chance to say he wasnt hungry.
This makes me so angry. This poor kid didn't even get a chance at a healthy life. As someone who has lost a lot of weight, I wish I had never been fat in the first place.
he looks 13 not 5
Doorlord congrats on the weight loss Hun! And yeah I know the poor kid doesn't know any better since he's been brought up with bad eating habits.
I lost a lot of weight too by starving at then I gained it all back with more
This is giving me Dursley vibes. The mom doesn’t realize what she’s doing is negative and that he isn’t at a dangerous place
I'm so happy somebody brought harry potter into This 😂
alexis mckenzie Mom's behavior/attitude/delusions could be consistent with someone who has Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. Sadly, she could be totally aware she's harming him - she gets a lot of attention for having a "sick" child. I think she gets off on being the poor victim of this child with health problems. Put her in jail!
Does this woman exhibit Munchausen by proxy , or am I just seeing things 🤔
@@meganvictoriakearns7529 Hi Megan I was thinking the same thing and posted it before I seen you posted it too. Yes I do believe she actually gets a charge out of the attention she gets from this poor kids morbid obesity . Probably takes him home after a doctor visit and bakes him a cake for a snack.
The mother clearly have some psychological problems, she's the one who's makimg him that way stuffing him with junk food and stoping him from being active. I think she's doing it on purpose because she wants her child to rely on her forever and thus she will feel needed or important.. Just sickening.
Something is not right when a person declares their opinion to be a fact, with zero evidence backing it up. Also, anyone who ALWAYS dismisses every single bit of contrary evidence is insane.
that a mom is in denial… in the netherlands child protective services would step in.
rosalie dat is waar
Nah
rosalie no they wouldn't
In Spain too. They removed a kid from their parent's care saying it was child abuse. They were right. It is! My daughter is 5 and she has more energy than us which is the way a 5 year old should be!
where is this, ah never mind, he said Liverpool.
No excuse. This shit is child abuse.
poor kid....
*Bangs head against wall* The problem is so obvious. It's one plate of food right after another! It doesn't matter that the food itself is healthy, he's eating too much of it!
this stuff is scary. leon is in for a mighty struggle in the years ahead, should things remain parked on " its his genetics " boulevard.
justice7219 Reminds me of Eric Cartman. "I'm not fat, I'm big boned!"
It just creates a built in excuse for the child.
Renee N. or the big and beautiful line some like to toss around, if trying to excuse morbid obesity. what this is, is dangerous and a powder keg set to blow.
justice7219 That plate of mashed potatoes was too much even for an adult. I mean, that' was Christmas dinner-level of mashed potatoes.
Renee N. to be followed a half hour later by an equivalent serving, followed up by the " genetics " reasoning.
I absolutely hate it when people blame genetics and don't take responsibility for their actions
He should be removed immediately from their care. Disgusting.
Janice Whalen sorta kinda definitley yes. Feeds him to much and refuses him exercise (walking) shes clearly an unfit mother despite her intentions. Some re education on the matter on behalf of the state would help.
No ! They need intervention definitely not removal as that is more traumatising for a 5 year old , it’s a very difficult situation, the mother needs the threat of social services perhaps but they both need help, she’s a feeder and the boy is getting a form of abuse
The way she kept saying “no”... “no”... to perfectly logical arguments thrown in her face made me want to fucking drop kick her. This poor child. I hope the UK version of CPS steps in and he’s able to go live with a relative that will give him proper nutrition, get him on an exercise plan, and keep him closely monitored by doctors and he gets to a healthy weight and can run around and just be a kid, away from his abusive mother.
Skyler Gray can’t believe this video either skylar!
Our AUsome Life fancy seeing you here! Hope all the kids are good. {: Lol I was clearly very pissed 2 weeks ago. Documentaries like this upset me. And seriously, poor kid. That’s not a way to live. I hope he’s doing better and maybe the documentary makers have offered family therapy or something, I know documentary makers often try to help a bit.
Im with you, seems like a better alternative than stripping the woman of her child to the point that it would scar both of them.
maybe she has some sort of chemical imbalance or something to be treated with therapy, not a reason to completely take a relationship and that kid isnt the gov'ts kld its HER kid. Feel me?
She doesn’t deserve “her” kid if she can’t parent correctly. There’s 10 factors that only slightly vary state to state to determine the fitness of a parent. She absolutely is not upholding several of them and CPS needs to step in.
She is so defensive. She knows exactly what she is doing. She is killing him.
No, I genuinely believe that she is a moron and has no idea.
This woman is ruining her son some people shouldn't be let near kids. You can't tell her anything! There has to be a medical diagnosis because she is not wrong! DELUSIONAL! WAKE UP LADY! OBESE PEOPLE DON'T LIVE LONG! there's a lot of sugar in fruit
Child abuse
PhiaGirl spot on. Absolute bullshit parenting...
Not child abuse at all are you mad? That’s such a horrible thing to say, she’s giving him too much love
Pretty much, by the time the kid is an adult he'll have such a massive hole he has to dig himself out weightwise otherwise he'll die an early death.
+Thomas Withington love ?you called that love 😞
Monika Gawlik yes I realy do you’ll do anything to keep your child happy, but she’s giving him the wrong attention, he’s obviously happy when he eats so their for she gives him more food, never in a million years is this child abuse
"How much more activity have I got to increase on a 5 year old ? " Kiddie should be running, skipping, playing hide and seek or make believe in the garden, not wheeled in chair between home and school. God help us...
Seriously! My niece is 5 and has more energy than two of me put together 😂
Genetics wouldn't make you that big at such a young age
Tiara Edwards still that kid weighs nearly as much as i do, and I'm nearly 4 times as old as he is. In the end, you can't gain more weight than you put into your body. You're body can't.magically create energy to make into fat.
Tiara Edwards wrong! its diet and exercise that plays a major role in weight gain regardless of having a slow metabolism.
Tiara’s Vlogging Channel that means he should have smaller proportions. All kids aren’t the same
Tiara’s Vlogging Channel sort of but not this much
The mother is at fault. Regardless of genetics, if you don't take in the calories, you cannot sustain that wieght。
pushes him around in a weelchair and shovels food down his throat, could that be a contributing factor? "no".
Mom: You want more food?
Son: No. I'm actually...
Mom: EAT MORE.
This is a form of child abuse.
This Mother is such a stubborn person. She is obviously feeding her son way to much.She is the problem, and her son will never lose weight if she doesn't listen to the professionals and take their advise instead of being so bloody minded.
She doesn't want to see him upset, tierd,hungry, or viewed differently. She's setting him up for a world of hurt.
The poor child is getting adult-sized portions. :\
Can't even eat half the stuff he is eating without getting bloated.
He's getting larger than adult portions! A healthy sized adult wouldn't eat as much as this kid is eating.
Adult sized portions that even I (a 25 year old adult) could not finish!
I can’t even eat half an adult portion and I’m almost 16
iirc there was an episode of Jo Frost's show "Extreme Parenting", and it dealt with food issues with kids. I think Frost said something about how it's a common problem, where parents don't realize that they're giving inappropriate portion sizes to their kids, and then they're either A) mad when the kid obeys their natural sense of satiety and won't eat anymore, or B) surprised when they ignore that feeling of fullness and end up gaining weight.
mother thinks shes right . not willing to listen and her son is suffering, shes over feeding him and she doesn't see shes not helping him but she thinks she is
He's 5??? He's a cutie pie but his Mom has to be the reason. He can't cook or buy food. It's her!😦
Exactly the mother is to be blame I control everything my child eats cause he's a child,he shouldn't be having bday cake the mother should put her bloody feet down .
Such a shame poor kid so qute
He would be 13 now
Keesh Mason no he could exercise also and not be a fat baby
Keesh Mason probably let's him have sweets and stuff from the shop as well
This reminds me a little bit about my own diet and weight. When I was a kid. My mother fed me a lot of food. Big portions and also a little too often snacks and such. It was okay for me until second grade but I didn’t know better I was only a kid. I saw all my other classmates and how much more smaller they were than me. And I started questioning my mother why I was so much bigger than my friends, and she said it was “ my genetics”.. but it clearly wasn’t. My weight led to insecurity, self hate and people took advantage of it. Especially the bullies. Eventually this led to bulimia and depression. Which still hunts my body.. Please! Feed your kids proper food, in regulated portions!! This can make the future of your child much brighter in many ways!!
I share an almost exact same story. The self destruction that can result from desperately trying to lose weight is terribly sad. Don't burden your child for life by overfeeding.
Eating healthy defeats the purpose if you feed him adult portions!
freedom seeker so true. I’m 18 and I can’t eat as much as he does without feeling sick
It breaks my heart to see this mother giving that much candy to her obese son. She is supposed to lead him into a happy adolescence but instead she is distroying his life from the very beginning!
She brings a wheelchair and keeps encouraging him to sit down. She states that she won't allow him to continue if he's winded. As a between-meals snack she gives him a banana, a slice of cake, 4 wheetabix with another banana, strawberries, and milk. That's the calories for an entire meal right there and that's JUST a snack. I don't care how healthy something is, it's still calories. Also, how the expletive is he going to learn when his body is hungry if she's constantly pushing food on him like a crack dealer pushes crack? At least wait until he asks for food...just doing that alone would help. I also haven't seen him drink any water. Then you feed him dinner and he's the only one at the table. Families should eat together if possible. His serving size for starches is also way off. The peas are actually reasonably calorific & the mash certainly is...especially if she's added milk or fat to it. There should always be a cup of water available as thirst can be mistaken by the body as hunger ...so you eat and then you still feel the same so you eat some more. The beverage with the meal is probably fruit juice when it should be water. SHE is a major part of the problem. What I don't understand is why the doctor isn't telling her to do a food/calorie diary for him so that she can see just how many calories she's feeding him.
Assuming the cake is 100 calories (probably more) , his in between meal snacks come up to 630 calories. Im a 19 year old and i eat 1200-1500 a day. A five year old should be eating maxxx maxxx 900 cals (probably less but i dint know for sure). So yea those healthy snacks are still way too much. If youre snacking on nearly 700 cals , you’re inevitably gonna overeat
Lol and i forgot to add milk which is 103 cals per cup ( around how much youd put in cereal, maybe even less!). So yea this kid is eating 800 cals in snacks when thats what he should be eating a day!!
A meal should be no more than 600 for me and im a grown ass person. My meals are usually 500 cals and im very much satisfied
The more food he eats the more his stomach stretch’s so he needs more food to fill it. That’s what’s happened here I’m afraid.
Malka Amar Reich according to the national institute of health, the caloric intake for children 4-8 who are not active Is 1200 to 1400 calories compared to the 1600 to 2000 calories an active child (which is pretty much most kids) of the same age should consume
"He's five what more activities could I make him do " what five year old gets pushed around on a wheel chair
I agree it is sad. He should be made to take walks and also smaller portions. I am an adult and he weighs more than me. I can only eat mini meals throughout my day.
This woman is making to many excuses. Her child needs to be active, let him go play with his friends outside.
And even if he has no friends. I have no friends, and my brother and sister never want to go outside, so I exercise by myself. So there is no excuse for him not having exercise. I used to use my lack of people to be with as an excuse but I soon quit the bullshitting.
those are HUGE portions ... there's nothing good about having that much starch
“It’s genetic I swear!” She says as she feeds him enough food in two hours to keep a whale full
yeah, lady, "it's genetic" ummm, just a shot in the dark here... but i'm willing to bet she's not holding a doctorate in genetics.
Doesn’t hold a doctorate in genetics and wouldn’t listen to someone who does. What a woman!
This is absolutely disgusting. The mom should be charged for child abuse, because a 5 year old shouldn’t weigh as much as an average 17 year old should weigh!
The mother is over feeding that baby It makes no sense for a 5 year old to weigh just as much as a teenager she needs to seek counseling soon before he grows up and start having all types of heart problems god bless that child
Cake before dinner? And the bowl on the sofa is filled with candies, while kid is watching TV? She just does't know how to say "no" to her own kid. I also did't notice dad on the picture? Is it possible she is just overprotecting and loving her son in a fear of loosing his love and attention? Just seems like mum needs some really good advice and example set for her from other mums, who have been in similar situation. At this point it feels she is afraid to let him go and be a child....
Helluminati I think most of these fat-o-genic parents have an eating disorder themselves. Those fat cells he is developing will be with him the rest of his life, their job being to stay filled with fat. He will never regain a normal metabolism.
I agree with you, but I think it is a bowl og cherries on the sofa.
I think they're grapes. But she is feeding him too much I think
I had 1 biscuit and glass of milk after school. And was not allowed to eat until supper.
He's not going to live til he's 18 and it will be her fault
Gill Bateman starving yourself is not good either. You dont eat dinner? Wow thats crazy.
She's feeding him good healthy food but its the size of the portions thats the problem......bloody Weetabix wiv fruit then an hour later a big bloody dinner???? At 5 years old!!! My 10 year old don't eat as much as this lad does!!! The mum is the problem not the kid......but in her mind listening to her she's doing nothing wrong........she is by piling his plate up high.....no wonder hesc10 stone at 5!
While I read this, I could hear the accent lol
Adult size portions!
Oh wow, just the amount of denial is scary.... that dinner she gave him would be pressing up to big for even me and I'm almost 21, not 5!! and that was after those snacks. I feel so bad for Leon, but it's hard to sympathetic with his mother. Even when someone is offering her an answer and telling her that its far to much she cant face it. she acts like it's a personal attack on her and her mothering. There is nothing wrong with admitting you're overfeeding your child, as long as you move forward and make changes then that really only reflects well on your parenting.... but getting defensive and acting like you've never made a mistake as a parent does reflect poorly. Never put your pride over your child's health and life expectancy!!
That looked like my dinners when I was playing Football! During 2 a days!
+Toscalily yeah exactly and this is with an entire film crew there watching there every move. imagine when the mom can't be bothered cooking and decides to get KFC 0.0
+Toscalily At this rate she will be denying what she had done to him at his funeral when he is 10 years old.
+Toscalily So fucking true!!!! I made a video yesterday on overweight children and what I think the parents role is. And at the end I actually said ho its OK to hold your hands up, admit you cant do it alone and accept help. And really , she ISNT accepting the precious help she is luck to have access to!!
your mouth and brain need a thorough washing
That is a MASSIVE dinner for a 5 year old, that is a grown man sized portion.
Why didn't she let him walk all the way home? He seemed totally fine, he obviously wanted to run and play. Instead of doing a fucking puzzle take him to the park or a Chuck E Cheese and let him have fun. She's unbelievable. She should track his calories, not overfeed him healthy food.
Chuck E Cheese???
Good Lord, really?! Chuck E Cheese? Why, so he can gorge on soda, cake, ice cream, candy and four fucking XL pizzas all to himself?! Gross!
Take him to a park and feed him some fucking celery sticks, carrot sticks, sliced apples, salad not drenched in dressing, steamed broccoli/cauliflower florets, sautéed green beans, lean meats and limited carbs and fats. Chuck E Cheese will only enable feeding him large quantities of fat foods!
Most conversations she has with him is her asking if he wants this food or that food. She feeds him so much! Doesn't matter how healthy the foods are, there is too much of it and so constantly she's feeding him like how can u be that thick as to not understand that logic and be so defensive, consider it and see what happens to his weight
Get that boy isolated from Mom for just one week and watch how much he loses. What excuse could she come up with then?
Those portions are huge for a 5 year old.....
Natalie LeAnn Hughes they are big for a normal person how does she think this is okay
I know someone who has been obese forever because her parents started her bad habits. As a 4 year old they were feeding her 2 eggs, 2 pieces of toast, fruit, and bacon for a weekend breakfast. I don't even think I could finish that now and I'm almost 25.
Cierra Marie wtf you consider that a lot i eat twice as that much.well there must be something wrong with me then
You are right mum..there is a cure for him....give him into adoption...
He is freaking adorable. It's horrible what Leon's mother is teaching him-- to eat and sit. He will suffer if nothing changes. This is why I want to help obese children... I wished I had help when I was little and obese!
Zoe D'Arcangelis awwwww thank you for being the 1 nice person commenting
Are you going to be a paediatrician?
This was posted in 2010, does anyone know whats up with him now?
Blood tests carried out to determine if Leon, the little boy who was the same weight as the average 17-year-old, had an underlying genetic cause have thus far came back negative. Some test results are outstanding. His doctor said Leon, now six, is gradually losing weight.
There are bunch of people in the comment section (mainly kids) who are saying that they're connected with him via Facebook and that he's kept a lot of the weight off, but that he's still overweight.
Defensive because she knows she's wrong.
You gonna wait for his Breathing to be effected before you stop but your 5 y/o is using a wheel chair coz you made him too fat to walk distance...shameful disgraceful mom!!! You need charges brought on you for child endangerment!!!
She told him to sit. He was moving just fine!
She stops him as sold as he starts breathing hard. That's rediculouse. You can't lose weight if your not allowed to push yourself at all. Weight loss starts when the heart rate hits a certain point I believe. So his exercise will never be enough.
Wow, having to follow a 5 year old around with a wheelchair. Thats just so sad. Poor kid. Terrible mother.
(Paraphrasing) Reporter: You are feeding him good foods, but could you be feeding him to much??
Mom: No, no.
Can you spell 'denial'?
Also, why is mom following Leon around with a wheelchair?? She's the one who keeps asking if he wants his chair. He's not slowing down. He's actually running along. She's crippling him.. :'(
She seems delusional...
Remove "seems". She absolutely is delusional.
Jason Perryman she prods him to sit down. Literally showing him an easy escape on his normal walk home. Hell if they are going to make him use a wheelchair make him go uphill by himself
she probably associates food with love so she feeds him alot because she feels she's taking care of him that way. and he loves her back so he wont deny the food because he knows it makes her happy to see him eat??
some BUNNYONCETOLDME Wow, nice analysis
That's an excellent theory.
michelle s. That and her being overbearing and coddling towards him with the whole wheel chair bit. The whole time he was walking they kept on asking if he'd like to sit in the chair. She's treating him like he's still an infant.
He wasn't even asking to sit down. They just start offering the seat over and over. He wasn't puffed or struggling or anything! Jfc.
Omfg the denial.
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This kid- and so many more like him- is NOT going to be healthy until he gets away from his mom. It's clear that she's coddling him, and feeding him way too much food. He cries because he's learned that she can't stand it and will stuff his mouth to stop it. It's all a sign that she has a lot of anger and emotional troubles she has not dealt with. She needs HELP!! And she needs to break out of the denial. And WHERE'S HIS DAD?!? Absent, as usual. I feel bad for this boy.... He's going to have a really hard life and probably die young from diabetes or heart issues. Wake up, mum!!
The mom needs to be slapped 😂😂 Lord she was getting on my nerves in this!!!
I also gain weight very fast but thats no excuse to look like that. Im normal weight but I have to look at what I eat. Healthy food but in normal portions. Not like that!
this is the parents fault and sld be charged with a crime.
Michelle Mollencupp I don't know about in other countries but in the U.S it can be considered child neglect and abuse if their is no underlying medical reason as to the weight gain. They would remove the child into a safer situation. What some parents don't realize is that this will eventually cause harm now or down the road as the child becomes older. Whether they lose the weight or not it as already left its mark on the child.
Call the police
leon's mom is ridiculously wrong.
My family is like this, forcing food on me and asking me to rest even when I'm not tired. Whenever I go on a diet to try and loose the weight, they're asking me to go out to eat and won't leave me alone about eating junk food. I was over one hundred pounds overweight at 12. I'm taking charge now and I've already lost ten pounds in a couple of weeks and I don't play on stopping now! My goal is to have lost thirty pouds by next month! If anybody else is struggling with being overweight, don't give up
peachapla madd Keep it up!! When my cousin was was 9 he was 70 lbs overweight and his mom (my aunt is his stepmom) she was like, he’s only a few pounds overweight, let alone very overweight
How's it going with your weight loss?
Take that poor boy out of this family!
The women are about to kill him.
A wheelchair?? Seriously lady, he can walk home from school without needing to sit down. He obviously has a addiction to foods. She is ultimately hurting her son and probably will suffer not only physical but mental and social problems. This mother is cruel.
She is the one who brings him food and asks him to sit down, not the other way around. He's happily running around or watching TV after a small snack and she keeps peeking in and asking if he wants this or that. It's disgusting behavior on her part.
TamakiKowazoe I know! I absolutely agree with you. He was walking just fine and she asked him if he wanted to get in the wheelchair. I couldn't believe it!! I was appalled at the way she treated him. I think she enjoys having him totally relying and dependent on her.
She actually really frustrated me when I watched it. Sorry if I made it sound like I was blaming him. She is creating a deadly recipe for her son.
I understand entirely! She's definitely headache inducing. Poor boy.
As someone that has to use a wheelchair due to health issues this has really annoyed me. He was walking perfectly fine and they kept insisting he had to sit down
“Lion does get exercise” mhm sure....walking outside to get mail doesn’t count and rlly? The wheelchair cause he’s tired after school. Bih no.
'Well, that could be the problem couldnt it? That although he's getting good food, he's getting a lot of it."
"No."
6:53 "I just wish someone would put a camera in the corner of my house and watch my son. Then come back and tell me I'm doing something wrong. Cause I guarantee they won't find nothing." As she gives him snack after snack 🙄
Latrisha Collins I thought the same thing! I hope they DID put a camera in her house! I hope they got that poor kid into an obesity clinic for children for at least a year! He’d come out normal weight, for sure. This is 7 yrs ago. I’d imagine he’s going thru living hell right now at school if there’s been no intervention. Your heart just breaks for him, right? And statistics are against him, not her, sadly.
I hope they do and give the evidence of child abuse to the courts. This is a form of abuse and it's disgusting. I feel so angry
They did put a camera in her house and they did tell her what she did wrong, but she won't accept the blame
Right? And that was when she knew cameras were pointed directly at her and her son... Can you even imagine what she actually feeds him on a normal day when nobody's looking?
She just wants something to be wrong with her kid
Munchausen by proxy
Rem Rem oh no I'm so hurt, a stranger claims me to be something, honestly get a life.
yes, she's a narcissist. She will flip out once he becomes an adult and attempts to have a life of his own
She wants something to be wrong with her kid just to avoid taking responsibility for her kid
When I was a kid and used to ask for more food, my mom just said "No." And this mom doesn't know how to raise his child. So sad.
8:16
Reporter:"So that could be the problem. Altough he is getting good food, he is geeting ALOT of it!
Mother:"No"
ALOT is not a word. Neither is "geeting"
Diane C you must be a blast at parties ...
Hahaha thats funny. Maybe Diane C is geeting ALOT of fod hairself :D
This pissed me off. The mom is the problem!! And she doesn’t see it, she thinks what she’s doing is okay. Man shame.
Arrest the parents for child abuse & child endangerment! It's fitting considering what that child will face later in his life!
David Carter yes
That makes me so angry. If Leon would eat healthy food and get exercise as she said than he wouldn’t be obese. These are just poor excuses for her bad parenting 😡
Majority of the kids his age eat the same way as he does,maybe even more.But very very few of them turn out to weigh like Leon.So,genetiics definitely is involved.
Oh, nooo! His breathing is effected by physical activity. Say it ain't so.
John McClane 😂😂😂
I have asthma and I can do more physical activity than this kid without needing my inhaler. But maybe I'm not the best example of what people with breathing difficulties can do because I tend to push myself and I have passed out before so take my comment with a grain of salt. Lol
lol this comment cracked me up .... lol such appropriate sarcasm. God the mother is a stupid woman!!!
Three words Münchhausen by proxies she enjoys the attention she gets over him
+Daisy Fields That actually makes sense
LS k thank you I know right it is kind of obvious isn't it I feel so sorry for the poor kid though 😕
My real dilemma is if what the mother is doing should be considered a type of murder since she is actively killing that poor kid
I totally agree hun but it won't happen unless the "professional" that she sees wakes up and puts his foot down god I hate mothers like her
+Daisy Fields There was a family who had their child taken away because it was overweight, then in foster care put on even more weight. Then it was found to be a medical condition.
omg the amount of food would feed a whole family and she thinks she is not doing anything wrong poor little kid early grave right there
Nikki Mctouton ive got 4 kids under 8, a husband that works away im running after them 24/7 and I couldn't eat all that
Steph Starrett I've got four little kids as well and I could never eat that much either. Neither could my 5 year old or 9 year old. My 5 year old will eat 1/8-1/4 c of protein and 1/4-1/3 c of mashed potatoes and a few scoops of peas approximately for dinner. He moves non-stop all day, cannot get him to hold still. The amount on this kid's plate could feed me and all my kids.
C its so awful, especially since she was constantly offering more food all the time
That's the part that drove me CRAZY. She is clearly giving him way too much food--the amount she gave him was what I'd eat in high school when I was swimming competitively for 4 hours/day. It's way too much food for a five year old. And she just stands there saying "No, it's not too much food."
Lady, your kid is 10 stone. It's clearly too much food.
She hasn’t stopped feeding him since he walked in the door from school, wtf!
😂😂😂😂
He will more than likely be bullied in school
And kids are cruel today
*watches video*....*slowly puts down cheeseburger*
Best comment ever
Omg😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
*countinues video*
*makes salad*
Here have some fries and coke instead.. lol
Turn off the TV and go outside with him...
So many excuses.
Take him away from her, she is so stuck in her own ideas that she cant see what the fault is and it is KILLING her son
kate a You nailed it!
I watched 30 seconds and I'm no doctor but THE FUCKING PARENT IS AT FAULT. Maybe I should go get my MD.
Why she giving him food after food....its her fault .....oh gosh...
Lol she just can't admit she is overfeeding her child it's kinda funny and sad at the same time.. She basically gave him a daily portion of food which an average person eats in user 2h but in her mind 1,000 pounds of pizza ways less then a 1,000 pounds of fruit since fruit is healthy😂
Sad how this Mother can not even receive corrective criticism!! Lady just SHUT YOUR MONTH and LISTEN to what his gentle man is trying to tell you; including your doctor. You are a Stubborn individual and wonder why your Son is So Huge!! Come on now😕
This was 8 years ago. I wonder what this kid looks like now?
I'm not 100% sure about this, but I just recently came over an article from 2014 mentioning the case of cardiac arrest of a 10 year old in Newcastle, who later subsequently died. Sadly fits the description of Leon, but I may still be wrong here. Horrible parents deserve to be put in jail for life.
dear god, i hope it wasn't this sweet little boy! but it's still tragic whoever it was that passed away. just a sad topic all around. i'm going to go look around right now and see what i can find out. i didn't realized the video was that old.
Knut A. Lilleaas no the story was published in 2014 but the kid died in 2010
Knut A. Lilleaas I don't think it was him, the article also mentioned that the parents were long-term drug addicts and while his mother seems a bit crazy, I don't think she was on drugs.
Knut A. Lilleaas Might not be because Leon is from Liverpool not Newcastle haha.
Mom doesn't understand she is over feeding her baby
She constantly asking him to sit down
Berglín mist Kristinsdóttir And giving him a whole bunch of chocolate and she gives him way to much food it's like she's not even trying I feel bad but...