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Body-Positivity Can Help With Changes During Puberty: Your Teen for parents

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Body-Positivity Can Help With Changes During Puberty: Your Teen for parents

Parents… we are doing the best we can. We really are… and yet, when it comes to body image and health concerns for our kids, we need a new approach to focus on well-being for all kids, and we need to really let our kids grow into their bodies (and change culture that doesn’t want to make space for them).

Here’s an interview I did with Your Teen for Parents and I hope it helps regarding weight gain in puberty…

“Parents should know that a wide range of weight gain is normal for pubescent tweens—somewhere between 20 to 50 pounds, according to Rebecca Scritchfield, a registered dietitian, a nutritionist, and the author of the book Body Kindness. “The trend for many kids is to gain weight first, and the height catches up later,” Scritchfield says. Parents raised in a different generation might not realize this, she adds. And they may compound the issue by expressing weight concerns ingrained from their own childhoods. “You have to watch your comments,” she says. “Remember that a child’s way of thinking is ‘Am I good or am I bad?’, so any comment you make could be misunderstood. Your inner caregiver must come out.””

Read the full article: Body-Positivity Can Help With Changes During Puberty

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