{"id":7049150,"date":"2026-08-27T12:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/how-to-raise-kids-with-a-positive-body-image-7-expert-tips\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T12:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:43:09","slug":"how-to-raise-kids-with-a-positive-body-image-7-expert-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7049150","title":{"rendered":"How to Raise Kids With a Positive Body Image: 7 Expert Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ve struggled with body image for as long as I can remember. I grew up in the 80s and 90s, when women survived on grapefruit, SlimFast and diet pills. I never taped \u201cNothing tastes as good as skinny feels\u201d to the refrigerator, but only because it already kept a permanent room in my head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0It was an era when \u201cheroin chic\u201d was the ideal body, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sJWgQ15CAUw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicole Richie<\/a> got told, to her face, that she looked \u201cthicker,\u201d with the helpful note that it might cost her roles. Jessica Simpson, Hilary Duff, Kate Winslet, and Renee Zellweger, all of them healthy and average-sized, got raked over the coals for being fat. Victoria Beckham and the Olsen twins, meanwhile, were famous less for what they made than for how little space they took up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then I had a daughter, and the stakes rearranged themselves. Those sideways messages are the ones I actually worry about handing down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s especially true now, when girls can open Instagram and see celebrity bodies contracting in real time . The advent of GLP-1s have helped a lot of people manage legitimate health conditions, but it\u2019s an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/lifestyle\/style\/hollywood-plastic-surgeons-confront-rise-ozempic-body-1235371304\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">open secret that Hollywood starlets are using them<\/a> to become as slim, or slimmer, than the supermodels of my youth.\u00a0 The conversations about celebrities like Ariana Grande pick up more or less where the 90s left off. Eating disorders are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohsu.edu\/womens-health\/why-are-eating-disorders-rise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on the rise<\/a>, and experts say this particular moment risks pushing those numbers higher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">None of us can mute the culture. We can decide what happens at our own kitchen tables. So I asked three people who do this work every day for the specific, repeatable habits that help raise kids who feel at home in their bodies. Sarah Callazzo is the founder of the eating disorder helpline <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loveastranger.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Love, A Stranger<\/a>, and is in recovery herself. Golee Abrishami, PhD, is VP of Clinical Care at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.findoctave.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Octave Therapy<\/a>. Sally Fleck, PhD, is clinical director at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eatingrecoverycenter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eating Recovery Center<\/a> in Plano, Texas. Here\u2019s what they told me.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1_Start_with_your_own_body_story\"\/><strong>1. Start with your own body story<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"\/><\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before you fix a single word you say to your kid, listen to the ones you say about yourself. \u201cKids notice the comments we think are harmless,\u201d Callazzo says. \u201c\u2018I look terrible in this,\u2019 \u2018I need to lose weight,\u2019 \u2018I shouldn\u2019t eat that,\u2019 criticizing ourselves in photos. If they see themselves in you, they may start to wonder what those comments mean about them, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The good news for those of us hauling around a couple decades of baggage is that the bar isn\u2019t perfection. \u201cYou do not have to be fully healed to parent differently,\u201d Fleck says. \u201cYou can interrupt old patterns out loud.\u201d She suggests saying it plainly, something like, \u201cI grew up hearing a lot of unhelpful messages about bodies, and I\u2019m trying to speak differently now.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Callazzo calls this letting your kid see you\u2019re human. You can have a hard day, apologize for a comment, and ask your child what they need from you in the moment. Kids don\u2019t need us to model perfection. They need to watch us navigate the imperfect part with some grace.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"2_Go_for_body_respect_over_body_love\"\/><strong>2. Go for body respect over body love<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"\/><\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The standard body-positivity script asks kids to love their bodies, which is a lovely idea and a tall order for anyone, let alone a 10-year-old whose body is changing by the month. Fleck reframes the goal. \u201cNot every child is going to love their body every day,\u201d she says. \u201cA more realistic goal is <a href=\"https:\/\/mother.ly\/health-wellness\/childrens-health\/promoting-body-neutrality-for-8-year-olds\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mother.ly\/health-wellness\/childrens-health\/promoting-body-neutrality-for-8-year-olds\/\">body respect<\/a>. My body deserves care even when I feel uncomfortable in it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In practice, that means moving the compliments off of appearance. Callazzo\u2019s swaps are easy to start this week. Try \u201cyou look so happy\u201d in place of \u201cyou look so skinny.\u201d Praise your kid\u2019s kindness, humor, creativity, or strength. Give them language for boundaries too, like \u201cwe don\u2019t need to comment on someone else\u2019s body\u201d and \u201cyou never have to explain what you\u2019re eating or why.\u201d The work is teaching them that their body doesn\u2019t have to look any particular way to deserve care and a full life.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"3_Make_food_neutral\"\/><strong>3. Make food neutral<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"\/><\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every expert I spoke with circled back to the way we talk about food. Abrishami puts it plainly: \u201cThere is no \u2018bad\u2019 food or \u2018junk\u2019 food. Broccoli and cookies are both just food.\u201d She points to the loaded phrases most of us don\u2019t clock as they leave our mouths, like \u201cI need to be good today,\u201d \u201cI can\u2019t have that,\u201d or \u201cI\u2019m going to earn this later.\u201d Kids absorb that scoring system even when the words aren\u2019t aimed at them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the challenge for many of us who grew up surrounded by diet culture, because \u201cI was so bad this weekend\u201d is basically the mother tongue. Instead of \u201cI was so bad,\u201d Callazzo suggests, \u201cI really enjoyed that meal.\u201d Retire the arrangement where dessert is the prize for finishing the vegetables. Fleck says we should drop the moral vocabulary entirely, including words like good and bad and clean and cheat, and instead point to everything food actually is: nourishment, culture, pleasure, comfort, celebration, and connection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The catch is that this only works if the whole house speaks the same language. \u201cIt\u2019s difficult to tell a child that all foods can have a place while they hear the adults around them skipping meals, apologizing for dessert, or talking about \u2018working off\u2019 dinner,\u201d Callazzo says. To reframe food for your kid, you have to reframe it for yourself.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"4_Rethink_what_exercise_is_for\"\/><strong>4. Rethink what exercise is for<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"\/><\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is where I get to give myself credit. I teach Xformer Pilates, and I never tie a single rep to earning dessert or getting bikini-ready. I teach movement as a way to get strong enough to be inconvenient to mess with. (Ok, also health, longevity, and overall happiness, but I digress.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That framing turns out to have clinical backing. Fleck counts compulsive exercise and working out to \u201cmake up for\u201d eating among the red flags she watches for, and Abrishami flags the \u201cI\u2019ll earn this later\u201d logic as one of the loaded scripts kids inherit. For families with a kid in sports or dance, Fleck draws an especially useful line. Separate performance from body size wherever you can. \u201cStrong, fueled, rested, and emotionally steady are much better indicators of health than smaller or more controlled.\u201d Movement is supposed to add something to a kid\u2019s life. When it starts working like subtraction, it\u2019s worth a closer look.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"5_Protect_the_family_meal\"\/><strong>5. Protect the family meal<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"\/><\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mother.ly\/life\/family-dinners-create-healthier-happier-kidsstudies-prove-it\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mother.ly\/life\/family-dinners-create-healthier-happier-kidsstudies-prove-it\/\">Family dinners<\/a> often get talked up as protective, and the experts back that up, though not for the reason you\u2019d guess. Proximity isn\u2019t the active ingredient. \u201cWhat actually makes mealtimes so beneficial is that they are predictable, low-pressure opportunities for connection,\u201d Abrishami says. Kids learn that food shows up on a reliable rhythm, without a fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What quietly wrecks that is turning the table into a performance review. Comments about portions, praise for eating \u201cwell,\u201d pressure to clean the plate, all of it tells a kid that someone is watching and grading. \u201cWhen kids feel like they\u2019re being evaluated, they start looking for signals from other people to help them decide how to eat and how to look,\u201d Abrishami says. Her single best tip is simple and straightforward: Talk about anything at the table other than food and bodies. Ask about their day, a friend, something they\u2019re fired up about. Connection is the protective factor. Everything else just supports it.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"6_Build_a_filter_instead_of_a_ban\"\/><strong>6. Build a filter instead of a ban<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"\/><\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You cannot bubble-wrap a child against every \u201cwhat I eat in a day\u201d video and celebrity before-and-after. Both Callazzo and Fleck make the case for teaching kids to interrogate the feed rather than pretending you can delete it. When something questionable scrolls by, Callazzo suggests skipping the lecture and asking instead. \u201cHow did that make you feel?\u201d \u201cDo you think we\u2019re getting the whole story?\u201d \u201cWould you want a friend comparing themselves to this?\u201d You\u2019re handing them a filter they can use when you\u2019re not in the room.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Teach them to identify the machinery of monetized diet culture instead of swallowing the message, Fleck says. And both experts give kids explicit permission to protect their peace, which is a practice kids and adults alike can benefit from. Unfollow the account. Skip the video. Leave the conversation. We teach kids to be careful about who they let into their lives. Their feeds deserve the same bouncer.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"7_Look_for_signs_of_disordered_eating\"\/><strong>7. Look for signs of disordered eating<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"\/><\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reinforcing body positivity at home is the daily work. Knowing when something has tipped into a problem is the other half of the job. Keep an eye out for rigidity, Fleck says. A healthy habit has some give. A disordered pattern comes with rules a kid feels they cannot break. The red flags parents tend to miss are the ones the culture applauds: sudden \u201cdiscipline,\u201d the cutting out of whole food groups, a new fixation on ingredients. \u201cThe question I want parents to ask is not just, is this habit healthy,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s \u2018What happens if my child cannot do it today?\u2019 If the answer is panic, guilt, secrecy, or distress, that is important clinical information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch for meals getting skipped, foods that were fine last year suddenly off the table, distress when plans change around food, <a href=\"https:\/\/mother.ly\/health-wellness\/childrens-health\/signs-of-eating-disorders-in-kids\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mother.ly\/health-wellness\/childrens-health\/signs-of-eating-disorders-in-kids\/\">secretive or hidden eating,<\/a> exercising while sick or hurt, and pulling away from anything social that involves a meal. If the behavior is persistent, escalating, secretive, or bleeding into school, friendships, sleep, or mood, loop in a pediatrician or an eating-disorder-informed clinician. A handful of signs warrant urgent medical attention, among them fainting, chest pain, purging, or rapid weight loss. You do not have to diagnose anything first. As Fleck puts it, the threshold can simply be: this feels bigger than what we can hold at home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Callazzo wants parents to start the conversation the way they\u2019d approach puberty, before there\u2019s a crisis. \u201cThe goal isn\u2019t to have one perfect conversation,\u201d she says. \u201cThe goal is to open a door they know they can walk back through.\u201d Her own helpline fields calls from parents, not just kids, which is worth remembering the first time you notice something and feel your stomach drop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If there\u2019s one thing to get from all this, it comes from Callazzo, and it\u2019s the permission slip I wish someone had handed my mother. \u201cThis is your first time going through life, too.\u201d You will say the wrong thing. You\u2019ll grumble aloud when your go-to jeans are suddenly tighter. The repair, the out-loud correction, the willingness to go find help: This is the part your kid actually learns from.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My daughter is going to grow up in a world that profits from her feeling too big. The least I can do is make sure that the loudest voice she hears about her body, for as long as I\u2019ve got the mic, is one that never once mentions its size.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve struggled with body image for as long as I can remember. I grew up in the 80s and 90s, when women survived on grapefruit, SlimFast and diet pills. 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