The Body-Positive Parent: A modern and practical guide to raising happy eaters for readers of Genevieve Mora, Dr Jo Prendergast and Maggie Dent

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How can we make sure our kids grow up loving their bodies

For too long, parents' obsession with 'healthy' foods has created anxiety and turned generations of kids against their own bodies. In this practical and essential book, body-confidence parenting coach Emma Wright uses new research to show how to teach your child or teen to nourish their body in a way that's free from expectation and unique to them.

Emma covers everything from understanding why kids eat to navigating mealtimes, why you should ditch rewards, the difference between praise and encouragement, and correcting habits like bingeing or starving. She addresses the fat bias at the root of society's hang-ups over health and explores the key factors that affect kids' self-worth, like social media, sex, sleep and communication.

You'll learn how to:

• Raise a competent eater without fighting with them
• Talk about food and weight without damaging body image
• Protect your child from cultural pressure to be thin
• Shut down habits that can lead to eating disorders
• Let go of false and harmful assumptions about weight

With tips to end power struggles and free yourself from fear and guilt as a parent, this book uses groundbreaking new research to make a powerful case for why -- most of the time -- doing less is more.

Author Bio

Emma Wright is a body-confidence parenting coach redefining the meaning of 'healthy' in a weight-obsessed world. As an eating disorder survivor and a parent, she wanted her kids to feel good about their bodies in the way that she didn't. Diving into the research she discovered the surprising truth about unrestricted diets, and through her workshops and courses she has coached hundreds of Kiwi parents towards a more positive relationship to food for their kids. She offers workshops and coaching under the name Raising Body-Confident Kids.