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Creating Body Confident Students - Insprining Ed Conference - 2-21

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Girls and Beauty Confidence - The Global Report

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Girls and Beauty Confidence - The Global Report

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This website is based on the Confident Body, Confident Child resource pack, which has been developed by researchers in the EMBodIED Research Team from the School of Psychology and Public Health at La Trobe University, Melbourne, including: Dr Stephanie Damiano, Dr Laura Hart, Chelsea Cornell, Fiona Sutherland, and Professor Susan Paxton. Please click here to find out more about the development and evaluation of the resource.

The Confident Body, Confident Child resource pack includes this website, the Parent Book, activities, fact sheets, the Extended Family Book, and a poster to assist parents with promoting positive body image and healthy eating patterns in their young children.

This website includes all the information, parent tips, and activities presented in the Parent Book, as well as some of the activities that are only available online, the fact sheets, and access to videos for parents. You will also find a page presenting the 'Extended Family Book', as well as a 'Further Information' page that lists some other books you might like to read with your child, some other interesting online articles and videos, and some of the key references the research team used to develop Confident Body Confident Child.

It can be tricky to know what to say sometimes when your child asks a difficult question or makes an unexpected comment. Throughout each of the body image and healthy eating patterns sections you will be provided with some examples of helpful, positive, and realistic ways to speak with your child about bodies, food, SO WH﻿AT DO I SAY WHEN...?

and eating.

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This website is based on the Confident Body, Confident Child resource pack, which has been developed by researchers in the EMBodIED Research Team from the School of Psychology and Public Health at La Trobe University, Melbourne, including: Dr Stephanie Damiano, Dr Laura Hart, Chelsea Cornell, Fiona Sutherland, and Professor Susan Paxton.

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Kids need help in today's challenging environment to maintain body esteem, eat well and stay fit. While a disturbing number of children will suffer diagnosable concerns stemming from poor eating and fitness choices, well over half of all children-thin or fat, boys and girls alike-will learn at far too early an age to worry about and be dissatisfied with their body size and shape. Far from benign, children who are anxious about weight begin to view their bodies from the outside-in-objectifying and judging themselves harshly according to external standards. In the process, they disconnect from internal hunger cues that are perfectly attuned to what and how much their bodies need to eat, as well as the ways their bodies want to move naturally and joyfully in daily life.

These children are less able to care for their bodies; less able to make normal, sound, eating and activity choices, particularly in today's challenging food and entertainment environment. Instead they are at great risk for a host of body image, eating, fitness and weight concerns that are extremely difficult to reverse once established. This detrimental situation affects ever-younger girls and boys as well.

As worry about weight, the drive to be thin, "weight control" and dieting for weight loss have consumed our population, the rate of fatness has only increased, along with health problems associated with poor eating and fitness. Too many still believe that promoting fear and distain of fatness can be helpful in motivating positive health choices - that the more socially undesirable it is to be overweight, the more this will somehow help. But studies now confirm the opposite: body dissatisfaction routinely leads to less healthy and more disordered eating, less physical activity, weight gain and diminished overall health. Campaigns that add to weight stigma and fear of fatness in hopes of "size prevention" or weight control have not only failed; they are part of the problem. Primary prevention is therefore needed to target the seedbed out of which the full spectrum of body image and weight-related concerns take root and grow. BodyImageHealth provides tools to help prevent, reduce, or reverse the influence of insidious risk factors that diminish the body esteem, well-being, and health of countless children today.

Parents, educators, medical professionals, legislators and others who care about health want to help. But how to do so without harming has never been more crucial. While much remains to be learned, enough is now known to stop many problems before they start. BodyImageHealth offers the Model for Healthy Body Image and Weight, a comprehensive, big picture approach to teach young and old to value health and resist pressures that promote negative body esteem and counterproductive lifestyle habits. This model is the basis for the new Healthy Bodies curriculum and the Healthy Body Building Blocks for developing children, but it is fully applicable and adaptable for promotion of health in any venue for teens and adults as well.

"Healthy Bodies teaches exactly what every child and adult needs today: the facts about body size diversity, the wrongness, destructiveness, and proven ineffectiveness of weight stigma, why "weight control" is a flawed approach to a healthy weight and contributes to weight gain, the importance of connecting to who we are from the inside out, trust in listening to our bodies, encouragement to value and pursue vitality and happiness (instead of size) as a goal, and how to care for our bodies through mindful eating, and enjoyable movement. These smart, evidence-based, compassionate, engaging lessons teach both educators and kids the essence of self-care. Fully aligned with the Health at Every Size principles described in my book of that title, this curriculum should be taught to every child, everywhere!" -Linda Bacon, PhD, author of Health at Every Size

"Kathy Kater's Healthy Bodies curriculum is a marvelous breath of fresh air in a sea of misinformation and confusion. This latest edition of her book is the most comprehensive, compassionate, and practical science-based approach for helping children (and their teachers and parents) to navigate the tricky road towards positive body-esteem and well-being. The focus is on helping kids to distinguish between the realities of physical maturation and the rhetoric of cultural portrayals of "ideal" bodies, make physical activity fun and accessible, and learn to eat according to innate, internal hunger and appetite signals. Incorporating the lessons contained in this book into the school curriculum will go a long way towards helping our kids to grow up feeling good about themselves by taking the best possible care of the wonderful and diverse bodies they have been given." -Jon Robison, PhD MS, Department of Physiology, Michigan State University

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A comprehensive lesson plan to prevent eating disorder risk factors and address childhood obesity, weight stigma, and bullying in upper elementary age kids. Evidence-based curriculum promotes positive body image, healthy eating, fitness and health at every size (HAES®) in today's challenging environ

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For more than 15 years, we've been helping parents, mentors, teachers, and youth leaders deliver self-esteem education that's reached more than 60 million young people so far. By 2030, we're aiming to have helped ¼ billion build their positive body image.

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Skip to content For more than 15 years, we've been helping parents, mentors, teachers, and youth leaders deliver self-esteem education that's reached more than 60 million young people so far. By 2030, we're aiming to have helped ¼ billion build their positive body image.

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BE REAL is a grassroots movement linking caring people in local communities, business, and government with organized opportunities to change a culture that isn't working for anybody's body image in today's world.

We live in a time and place obsessed with appearance. Today's social media - where so many kids edit and curate their own images - has created a culture where 70% of adolescent girls and 45% of adolescent boys don't feel comfortable in their own skin. Our children feel flawed in comparison to the perfect images they see on Instagram and other visual social media. Kids' body dissatisfaction contributes to serious mental health problems: eating disorders, depression, isolation, anxiety, risky sexual behavior, substance abuse, and low self-esteem.

Our children's focus on their bodies - how they appear to others, what measurements they need to meet, and what to feed them - has become an overwhelming distraction in their lives. It steals their time and energy because they spend so much of that time and energy focused on how they look. What could they do or how could they grow with all that time back? Research shows that children who grow up body confident have better physical and mental health, perform better in and out of school, and are more likely to fulfill their unique potential.

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BE REAL is a grassroots movement linking caring people in local communities, business, and government with organized opportunities to change a culture that isn't working for anybody's body image in today's world. We live in a time and place obsessed with appearance.