the ice cream scene

Rating: Null/10 (8 January 2007)

I really didn't like how Richard was telling Olive she would get fat by eating ice cream. Why tell a 7 y.o. girl she's destined to be fat just because she orders ice cream? But anyway, when the mom tries to console her, I think she misses the point completely; she basically tells Olive that she could be fat or skinny, whichever she chooses, as long as she's happy. She doesn't even mention anything about ice cream. But I think it would have been more appropriate to make it clear that having ice cream sometimes does not result in obesity or even necessarily fat. Poor Olive! The mom just really missed the point in trying to console her daughter, and should have smacked Richard around a little for constantly damaging his child's self-esteem.