Understanding the Dangers of Child and Teen Online Activity

Do you know what your children are doing online? The digital world has moved so fast for parents that many don’t understand how their kids are being influenced or targeted online. They underestimate the disastrous consequences of internet bullying, low… Continue Reading >

How to Become a Body Image Role Model

As a young girl, I was brainwashed into diet culture and poor body image. I remember walking past the checkout counters in the grocery store, seeing the magazines, praising weight loss, or advertising a new miracle diet My environment compounded… Continue Reading >

Leading the Way to a Healthy Body Image

As parents, we play the most critical role in helping our children develop a positive body image and sense of self-worth. Children’s opinions of their bodies form at a very young age, and whilst it is difficult for older children,… Continue Reading >

How To Help Children Have A Healthy Body Image

Three Important Considerations As a mental and family health advocate and a parent who has supported my daughter through recovery from an eating disorder, I am often asked, “How can I help my child with their body image?” Sadly the… Continue Reading >

How Parents and Educators can Help Young People Develop a Healthy Body Image

One of the best gifts you can give to your kid is the gift of a healthy body image! Here’s why. The image kids hold of themselves has so much to do with their overall mental and physical health and… Continue Reading >

How to Help Children Have a Healthy Body Image

Helping your child have a positive body image begins so much earlier than you think. Babies learn through watching, and well before they can talk, they have already absorbed so much information about the world around them. Particularly about their… Continue Reading >

Tips for Parents Supporting a Child Experiencing Negative Body Image | Maddy Tyers | Ep 151

  For anyone that has experienced a loved one suffering with an eating disorder will know it can be very complex. Many suffers do not realise they have a problem, heartbreakingly they see themselves very differently to others and they… Continue Reading >

Protecting your Child’s Body Image

By Sarah Smith from Bayside Dietetics www.baysidedietetics.com.au FB Bayside Dietetics Twitter #BaysideDietetic Instagram @baysidedietetics   I’m going to take you through the story of one of my clients, let’s call her Ella. Ella’s story is important because it’s common. When… Continue Reading >

International No-Diet Day: YOU come first!

On a plane, we are required to fit our oxygen masks before taking care of our children. This is because we can only help our children if we help ourselves first. Similarly, we can’t expect them to have a positive… Continue Reading >

Body Image… What are you really teaching your children?

The sad reality is that children younger and younger are expressing concerns about body image. Negative body image can cause significant distress and low self-esteem. Research has indicated that children as young as 8 and 9 are vulnerable to negative… Continue Reading >