Parent: So what can I do to improve things?

Maternal and Child Health Professional: Well in terms of looking at weight, there are two things that are available to change – two things that determine weight. One is how much activity we do, so getting Josh to be a little bit more physically active and we can talk about that. And the other one is looking at eating and the energy intake and so we can talk about what Josh eats, perhaps suggest some changes there.

Parent: Yeah.

Maternal and Child Health Professional:  So we are not expecting that Josh will lose lots of weight, in fact we don’t want him to lose any weight

Parent: Oh, okay.

Maternal and Child Health Professional: What we really want him to do is slow down the rate at which he gains weight.