Fat talk parenting in the age of diet culture
"By the time they reach kindergarten, most kids have learned that "fat" is bad. As they get older, kids learn to pursue thinness in order to survive in a world that ties our body size to our value. Multibillion-dollar industries thrive on consumers believing that we don't want to be fat. Our weight-...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Henry Holt and Company,
2023.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Fat talk: an initiation
- Part 1: "What about health?" The myth of the childhood obesity epidemic
- Separating weight and health
- When "it's not a diet"
- Thin kid privilege
- Beyond the scale
- Part 2: "Are you sure you want to eat that?" What we teach at the dinner table
- Snack monsters and sugar addicts
- The "nervy mothers" myth ; (Straight, white) dads on diets
- Part 3: Taking up space. Diet culture in the class room
- "I got taller and gymnastics got scarier"
- Normalizing puberty
- Social media's tipping point
- How to have the fat talk.
