They need a leader who is going to go ‘Oh, you want to go camping, sure! Let’s figure this out. You can help research and plan’.

My son will get in the shower, stand there for a while (I guess so I think he’s washing?) then just get out. I’ll smell his hair and it just smells like wet dirty hair. Then he’ll deny he didn’t use shampoo, and say it must be faulty! I tried to call his bluff once and said ok get the bottle we’ll take it to the store…

“If you just lost some weight, I could actually be proud of you” - My grandmother to me, immediately after I graduated with honors from one of the top three universities in the country.

When my son was young, he would emerge after a shower and I would say, “Did you use soap?” Without fail, he would respond with, “Oh, MAN,” and trudge back into the bathroom to do it all over again.

WHO TELLS A KID TO STOP EATING FRUITS???

This happened when I was in middle school. One day I was wearing a long dress and heels to school because I had an orchestra dress rehearsal later. The heels were low but I only ever wore sneakers so I couldn’t walk in them very well. My mom was driving me to school, with my 3 year old sister along for the ride. On…

I just remember at suppertime, my 3 stepbrothers, my Father and Stepmother got the standard rice and gravy, meat and veg, where I was presented with 3 cheese slices, a sliced peach, a iceberg lettuce and tomato salad. At the dinner table I was informed that I would be eating different food, because I was to heavy, and…

I had asthma as a kid (so could never do the running-jumping-climbing trees thing) and eventually PCOS now, so I was, and probably always will be, chunky. For a brief period in high school I had an eating disorder, but even at my skinniest I was a 10/12 (I’m 5’11” for reference).

“I hate your face.” - Mom, on my wedding day after I just returned from getting my hair done

I was a pretty chubby tween. Let’s just say that. My dad was banned from shopping with us after the fateful day when I held up a dress and he nonchalantly responded, “Aren’t you a little fat for that?” My eyes welled with tears, my mother spun around with rage screaming my dads name, and he just looked bewildered.…

Haha you should send her an invoice. She’d deserve it.

Got a package in the mail one day from my mom with weight watchers pamphlets and a note saying that she would pay me $100 a pound-up to 30 lbs-for each lost.

In the grand scheme of things, this is not nearly as bad as other stories. I have overlapping bottom teeth and my mom hated the idea of me getting braces because of her own fucked up experience with them. Day before I left for college she told me I should have gotten braces. 10 years later she told me she had a hard…

My dad (who is a drunk and an asshole and completely out of my life) once commented on the way I dressed by saying, “I feel like I’m going to see you on Girls Gone Wild someday.”

I was 16 and getting ready for my first Homecoming dance with my girlfriends, which I would be attending with my first (and very new) boyfriend. We had scheduled appointments to get our hair done that afternoon, followed by makeup appointments a little later. Thus, it seemed logical to me that I did not have any…

2 weeks after I had my 2nd son and actually had already lost most of my weight my mother and I are at Target (I'm holding my infant)and she says (she had 8 children but has never weighed more than 105lbs) “WHEN are you going to lose weight? Why haven’t you started exercising!?” 2 older women (strangers) walked up to…

My mom has done so many!

Leaving for my first day of junior high, wearing my my first pair of “cool, grown-up” Gloria Vanderbilt designer jeans - last thing my mom said to me as I headed out the door “If you knew what you looked like from the back you wouldn’t be wearing those.”

Your mom thought she was unpopular because of her weight. In reality it was her shit-ass personality.

My dad, who is partial to women with teeny tiny frames, used to sort of whack my awkward pubescent shoulders and ask “When did you get such broad shoulders?” As if he thought patting them hard enough would magically shrink them down. I felt ashamed that I apparently had a body no man would like.