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Are you worried about your ability to raise a normal eater, when maybe you’ve never been one yourself? Do you worry about raising children in larger bodies because you fear they will live a life filled with eating issues and judgment? Listen now for some suggestions for navigating this difficult part of the food peace journey.
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This episode is brought to you by my PCOS summer series: Empowering Your PCOS Journey. You CAN make peace with food even with PCOS and I want to show you how. This series and our Facebook group will be with you every step of the way.
Episode’s Key Points:
- Being in a larger body in this world is HARD. From clothing choices to fitting in chairs, fat bodies face oppression EVERY day.
- It IS possible to prepare children for this fatphobic world by telling them that you love them at ANY size.
- Leslie Schilling joins to talk solutions!
- Our culture is one of diet culture, and so it’s not uncommon to have these fears when thinking about having children.
- Understanding our own development around food is a HUGE step in learning how to raise children with a healthy relationship with food.
- Sometimes we have to recognize that the way we were raised was super disordered!
- Use your nutrition intuition.
- Be ASSERTIVE about the way you raise your children.
- Remember that you are your child’s protector! It’s a parent’s responsibility to teach body peace, rather than body hate, and to stand up against other adults who perpetuate body shame.
- Honesty builds bridges.
- It’s not our job to change other people’s minds, but it IS our job to be assertive about our own safe spaces.
- Values upheld by the family help a child to be self-protective.
- Make sure your kid knows that THEY are in charge of their own body.
- Kids have to be able to FAIL. As long as they have a safe home to come back to, we can’t protect them from all of diet culture all of the time
- Baby-led weaning: use family food to wean kids off of the bottle.
- We are born as experts of our own body!
Show Notes:
- Link to subscribe to the weekly FREE Food Peace Newsletter. It is sent out every Tuesday morning and no spam EVER. By signing up, I will also send you Love Food’s Season 1’s Food Peace Syllabus.
- Intuitive Eating, 3rd ed. by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch
- “Helping Your Large Child Thrive in a Fat-Phobic World” by Julie Duffy Dillon
- Born to Eat: Whole, Healthy Foods from Baby’s First Bite by Leslie Schilling and Wendy Jo Peterson —> This week’s Food Peace Syllabus addition #1
- Dr. Katja Rowell, The Feeding Doctor
- 10 Ways Born to Eat Parents Handout excerpt from Born to Eat —> This week’s Food Peace Syllabus addition #2
- Leslie’s Instagram, website, and book website
- Eating Disorder Dietitian
- Julie Dillon RD blog
Do you have a complicated relationship with food? I want to help! Send your Dear Food letter to LoveFoodPodcast@gmail.com.
