Background: Obesity in children is a sensetive topic that can arouse strong emotions among the parents. In the meeting with the children and their families the child care center´s function is to support and guide, because that work is a key task för the districtnurse. Children´s obesity is a sensitive topic and its difficult to talk about it without make the families to get a sense och feeling hurt. Aims: the aim of this study is to describe how district nurses at the child care center expeience meeting with families of overweight children. Metod: Seven interviews were conducted with district nurses in child health activities. Data were using qualitative content analysis with an inductive approach. Results: From the result appeared two main themes; Challenges and difficulties in the conversation in the meeting with the family, to be able to have an holistic approach in the meeting with the family to get a health promoting change. Summary: The result describes how the district nurses in child care center experience the meeting with the families to overweight children, and difficulties to deal with because of the subjects sensivity. The result proves the importance of to find out about each family´s situation and create conditions for changing lifestyles. The district nurses caring attitude is importent to get the message trough.