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Your child is not their weight parenting in a size-obsessed world

If you've been told your child needs to lose weight, you know how hard it can be.You love your child just as they are and want them to feel good about themselves and their body.But, you may also have very legitimate concerns about weight-related bullying, anti-fat bias, and possible long-term health...

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Main Author: Skelton, Joey (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: American Academy of Pediatrics, 2026.
Subjects:
Exercise for children.
Weight loss.
Reducing diets.
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Summary:If you've been told your child needs to lose weight, you know how hard it can be.You love your child just as they are and want them to feel good about themselves and their body.But, you may also have very legitimate concerns about weight-related bullying, anti-fat bias, and possible long-term health issues.
Physical Description:294 pages ; 23 cm.
ISBN:9781610028547
1610028546
Author Notes:Joey Skelton, MD, MS, FAAP , is a professor of pediatrics, and of epidemiology and prevention, at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He is the founder and director of Brenner FIT® (Families In Training), an interdisciplinary pediatric obesity program. He is also the director of the Center for Prevention Science in Child and Family Health, vice chair of research for the department of pediatrics, and serves as editor in chief of the journal Childhood Obesity. He is the father of two young adults and lives with his wife in North Carolina. Dara Garner-Edwards, MSW, LCSW, is associate director of Brenner FIT and a family counselor at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Melissa Moses, MS, RDN, LDN, is the lead dietitian and Brenner FIT teaching kitchen manager at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

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