Kim Brittingham on Michelle Obama's Childhood Obesity Initiative

Look at it this way. Let’s say you have a choice between:

a) standing up before a room full of children and encouraging them to exercise more, or

b) standing up before a room full of children and encouraging them to exercise more, and then throwing a handful of knives into the audience.

Why would you select b), unless you wanted to hurt someone?

Read the whole post here.

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2 Responses to Kim Brittingham on Michelle Obama's Childhood Obesity Initiative

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    Maia says:

    That’s so awesome! I had some quibbles with the full post, but that quote is so on point.

    Apparently Michelle Obama recently gave an interivew where she mentioned that she never talked about weight with her kids. Although she apparently has no problem with talking about her kids weight with the whole world

    I’m tutoring an American History course, and the lectures just covered Eleanor Roosevelt – perhaps awesome first ladies using their powers for (mostly) good only happens when the president and the first lady aren’t that into each other. I did love this comment from Historiann’s earlier post about this topic: “[this initiative is] Perfect “work” for the First Lady, then, unpaid useless virtue.”

    peepers12
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    Cloud Hosting says:

    this is just brilliant :D I wonder how would she react at this article

    peepers06

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