I'm planning to do a newsletter piece later this year about diet culture and co-parenting... and YES the weight stuff in kids' sports/activities is bananas (did a whole chapter on that in the new book). Glad this was helpful - more to come!
I recognize that co-parenting is its own, whole, complex thing, but while we are on the topic, I'd love some tips for (softly?) pushing back on diet culture things with our siblings' kids or other younger people we are close to. I don't want to cross lines--I'm not their parent!--but also, I'm around a lot, and if there are things I can say/do that can help, I'd love to be a little more proactive about it. I'm sure you have a long list of topics to write about, and so no pressure or anything, but I wanted to throw the idea out there
This is so mirrors my experience as a mother of a wrestler. I permitted my son to wrestle as long as he never dropped weight To fit into a category. I got in the coachтАЩs face, and they knew I meant it. This means my kid was not as successful as he would have been, but now at 30 he struggles less than the rest of us with the body weight issue.
And honestly IтАЩm still learning so much. We are all brainwashed into thinking people who look like Olympic athletes or what weтАЩre supposed to be striving for. (Or models I guess.) IтАЩve been extremely grateful for the more inclusive body size concept on models. I come from the postwar generation and if you look at the size of those women it is truly scary. I recognize thereтАЩs a long LONG way to go but just for people to have normal sized butts and thighs is such a relief!
Sign me: brainwashed and fighting to get out of the cult тЩея╕ПYou go girl and keep giving your stepson positive messages. He will remember тЬи
I'm planning to do a newsletter piece later this year about diet culture and co-parenting... and YES the weight stuff in kids' sports/activities is bananas (did a whole chapter on that in the new book). Glad this was helpful - more to come!
I recognize that co-parenting is its own, whole, complex thing, but while we are on the topic, I'd love some tips for (softly?) pushing back on diet culture things with our siblings' kids or other younger people we are close to. I don't want to cross lines--I'm not their parent!--but also, I'm around a lot, and if there are things I can say/do that can help, I'd love to be a little more proactive about it. I'm sure you have a long list of topics to write about, and so no pressure or anything, but I wanted to throw the idea out there
I was trying to remember if IтАЩve written about this yet and I donтАЩt think I have! A great topic, going on the list for sure.
This is so mirrors my experience as a mother of a wrestler. I permitted my son to wrestle as long as he never dropped weight To fit into a category. I got in the coachтАЩs face, and they knew I meant it. This means my kid was not as successful as he would have been, but now at 30 he struggles less than the rest of us with the body weight issue.
And honestly IтАЩm still learning so much. We are all brainwashed into thinking people who look like Olympic athletes or what weтАЩre supposed to be striving for. (Or models I guess.) IтАЩve been extremely grateful for the more inclusive body size concept on models. I come from the postwar generation and if you look at the size of those women it is truly scary. I recognize thereтАЩs a long LONG way to go but just for people to have normal sized butts and thighs is such a relief!
Sign me: brainwashed and fighting to get out of the cult тЩея╕ПYou go girl and keep giving your stepson positive messages. He will remember тЬи