When this mum heard these words coming from her daughter, she knew it was time for a DMC.
Mum Allison Kimmey was enjoying having fun in the sun with her two children recently but soon the time came to head home. Allison told her children to hop out of the pool but her little girl Cambelle, aged 4, clearly thought this was the worst idea ever.
The little one, evidently frustrated that the fun was over, told her mum that she was fat. Rather than give out to Campelle for uttering these words and using them as a way to anger or hurt her mum, Allison had an alternative method. She explained,
“If I shame my children for saying it then I am proving that it is an insulting word and I continue the stigma that being fat is unworthy, gross, comical and undesirable.”
Mum spoke to Campelle in an effort to help her understand the meaning of the words she just used. She said fat does not represent who we are so the phrase ‘you are fat’ is rather misleading. She said that just because someone has more fat on their body compared to someone else doesn’t mean they are any more or less important than the other.
Cambelle did apologise to her mum, while her 6-year-old son Graham made it very clear that he was ‘the skinniest’ and had plenty of muscle too. But mum wasn’t letting anyone away lightly, this was just too valuable a lesson which needed the utmost attention from the two babas. She also felt others could relate and so took to Instagram to share the entire story.
