for and about today’s youth
from Timothy Ministries-The True Son & accompanying blog, The Maiden’s Portion
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When my younger daughter was ten years old, she came home from school one evening
and announced that she was not hungry. After pressing her for more details on why she
was not hungry right after school, she told me that two of her 'friends' had called her
'fat'. She took the remark to heart and completely altered her eating habits, no matter
how much I objected to it. The thing that made me the angriest was that she was not even
'overweight', much less fat! She was short--shorter than most of her peers--but NOT fat.
As school ended for the summer, and those friends