I think the reasons may be innumerable, but off the top of my head: if parents require extra information to be empowered and take charge wrt their kids, that's a tip-off that maybe this isn't one of their responsibilities; family discourse around weight and body issues is based in reality ~5% of the time, from what I can tell; assuming your relationship with your child is not already horribly broken and dysfunctional, you can acquire their height and weight on your own, and BMI is a worthless scale anyway; any semi-automated transfer of information between schools and parents is typically open to interception and abuse; children are growing and changing by definition, so flailing about momentary non-ideal states is almost certainly less useful than teaching general health/medical/activity skills, so *they're* empowered to take care of themselves in whatever way seems best as adults...
I would poke at the notion that a child's height is something that might need parental regulation, except that there totally are people feeding their kids growth hormones for non-pathological shortness. Also doing that awful Gattaca leg-lengthening thing.
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Date: 2009-07-14 05:25 pm (UTC)I think the reasons may be innumerable, but off the top of my head: if parents require extra information to be empowered and take charge wrt their kids, that's a tip-off that maybe this isn't one of their responsibilities; family discourse around weight and body issues is based in reality ~5% of the time, from what I can tell; assuming your relationship with your child is not already horribly broken and dysfunctional, you can acquire their height and weight on your own, and BMI is a worthless scale anyway; any semi-automated transfer of information between schools and parents is typically open to interception and abuse; children are growing and changing by definition, so flailing about momentary non-ideal states is almost certainly less useful than teaching general health/medical/activity skills, so *they're* empowered to take care of themselves in whatever way seems best as adults...
I would poke at the notion that a child's height is something that might need parental regulation, except that there totally are people feeding their kids growth hormones for non-pathological shortness. Also doing that awful Gattaca leg-lengthening thing.