Parents today are generally aware of mental health conditions that relate to body image, including common disorders like ...

Parents who want to protect and empower their children should understand the importance of teaching them anatomically correct terms like penis and vagina. Research shows that while the majority of ...

Great parenting rarely shows up in picture-perfect moments, but rather in the ways your kids absorb who you are and how you ...

The development of body image begins at an early age, often earlier than parents realize. By elementary school, some students are already exhibiting signs of negative body image by making disparaging ...

Oona Hanson’s child came home from school one day with a desire to eat healthier, which she thought was a positive development. But six months later, her child was in the hospital with an eating ...

Studies show that kids as young as 3 years old can have body image concerns. Author Susan Verde was an elementary school teacher who saw kids forming judgments about their bodies very early on and ...

Being bombarded with messages and images focusing on appearance and status is not new to this generation of young people. Indeed, decades of research demonstrate that exposure to narrow beauty ...

We want our kids to see their bodies as we have since day one: beautiful, strong, and amazing. But the sad truth is, from a startlingly young age, kids begin to have less-than-positive attitudes about ...

"I could not believe what I did to my 20-year-old daughter the other day. We're standing in the dressing room, and she had on a dress that looked positively stunning on her. Just beautiful. And I said ...

Weight Watchers has launched an app for kids to track their eating and rank foods as red, yellow, or green based on how high they are in calories.