For many children, being told that they need to lose weight can really be a difficult thing to handle. Children are pressured to look like their teen idols do, thin and perfect. When they fall short of their ideal image of what they think that they should look like or what they … [Read more...] about Need to Know: Helping Kids Lose Weight
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When Your Child Needs to Lose Weight
Children who are overweight often deal with issues of poor self esteem and poor self image. Popular society tells us that we have to be thin in order to be beautiful. We treat beautiful people differently than ugly people. In children's movies and fairytales it is the fair … [Read more...] about When Your Child Needs to Lose Weight
Your Child’s Weight Loss the Emotionally Healthy Way
Children today are bombarded with images of what beautiful people are supposed to look like. Just as adults are infatuated with Hollywood and the celebrity of having a nice body, children are not immune to the effects of how we classify the ideal body shape. Even children's … [Read more...] about Your Child’s Weight Loss the Emotionally Healthy Way
Parenting viewpoints from parents in the trenches, because parenting doesn’t come with a manual. In addition to