If you try to get a child to eat less or exercise more, you could disrupt the normal slimming and make matters worse. The only way to tell if your child is too fat is by checking her growth chart. Your child's fatness is likely to be normal if she is consistently following a particular growth curve. Some professionals say children are too fat if the growth curve of their weight for height is at or above the 90th to 95th percentile. That guideline doesn't make sense if your child's growth has always been at that level.
Some children are just heavier than others.
They have bigger bones or heavier muscles and more fat. Your child may be growing normally even if her weight climbs to a higher growth curve as long as the change is gradual. For example, if she shifts from the 50th to the 75th percentile over a period of a half or whole year, or even 2 years, she is probably growing in a way that is right for her. Sometimes children rapidly gain weight. You might see their weight climb from the 25th to the 75th or even the 90th percentile in one 6-month period.