March, 2018 | PulseonParenting

How to Talk Body Weight With Your Child Without Talking Body Weight

Mar 21 2018

That’s WAY more than you need, put half of it back in the serving bowl. You just ate, you can’t need a snack yet. Your brother can have two hamburgers…he is growing faster than you are right now. Ugh. These phrases are my dance around the weight issue. Trying not to mention that my child weighs too much, and the fear of fueling a body image problem or an eating disorder, this dialogue is the best I’ve come up with. Reading my rationale on my computer screen, I see how woefully inadequate and controlling I sound. Not overtly bad,…

Mar 15 2018

I entered the exam room with a paper chart (back in the olden days before the electronic medical record), the patient’s name and the patient’s concern, “discuss weight.” I was no stranger to addressing issues like this with my adult patients; it was a routine part of my day, treating and making treatment plans for a patient’s well-being and overall health. What I was not prepared for was, on entering the room, to see a mother and her preteen daughter…the latter, not the former, being the patient. At that point in my career I had little experience with…

Mar 01 2018

Our family likes to mix it up at meal time. Sometimes we offer a traditional grace, one of the two prayers my husband and I grew up with. Sometimes we get our Von Trapp on and sing “Johnny Appleseed” (Oh, the Lord is good to me, and so I thank the Lord…). At other times we recite the Philmont (boy scout camp in New Mexico) Grace. But our favorite is to go around the table and offer one thing we are thankful for in our day, something for which we are grateful. Gratitude seems to be implied; of course we are grateful…

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