book boycott

i was shocked the other night when jayden brought this book home to read! really!?! i was speechless as jayden read through this book - why would somebody publish a book like this and why would this be in a stack of books for a 1st grader to read?..... i included some of the pages below - basically this mom asks her children if she is fat... then goes on to serve them salad for dinner for a couple of nights and they keep asking for pasta. they even go to their father to ask him for pasta.... in the end the mother decides that she is ok with the way she looks and serves them pasta.

if you want to teach children about good eating habits - this is NOT the book! how about telling children about portion size, eating from the appropriate food groups (not all diets are about starving yourself with lettuce and tomatoes.... we are humans not rabbits), exercise...NEVER to ask your children what they think of your size (don't even ask your husband that question!!) ok - i'm stepping off my soapbox now :)