My girlfriends five-year-old son – she does a good job of feeding him a mostly organic diet, but he is fat. I haven't quite broach this with her yet, but he is fat because she lets him eat pretty much whatever he wants within the organic universe… So, he eats a bunch of organic meat, but no salads. Organic bacon, but no oatmeal. And she doesn't control his portions. So he runs around like a tubby little doughboy, sweating and puffing while my kids have not even come close to running out of breath, and it's sad. His arm stick out to the side a bit and he waddles like a penguin. He has the energy of a five-year-old boy, and sprints around from here to there, but just does not have the endurance because of all the weight he was carrying.

He is about 65 pounds and is about to turn six. He is not very tall, so all that weight is packed into a below average height frame. She thinks it's cute and assures herself and everyone else that he will "just grow out of it."

I love her, so it's difficult. I'm not a perfect parent myself – nobody is, but this is something that will have to be dealt with if we continue our relationship.