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4.43 AVERAGE
Great insight to fat phobia and how these cultural mindsets and generational traumas are hurting future generations. Love that it also balanced those things with some ideas on how to break these cycles. As a parent, the hardest part for raising good, healthy kids is knowing where to start and how to engage in these conversations. Knowing how to be aware of these things and have a plan to be prepared for the conversations, it gives me hope.
challenging
informative
medium-paced
Really comprehensive view of different ways fat bias impacts kids, and useful strategies to make things better for everyone. As someone concerned from afar with how kids are shaped by beauty culture, this book gave me some hope.
informative
inspiring
Extremely challenging, empathetic, thought-provoking, and while researched book. The title is a bit misleading. This book is valuable not just for parents, but for anyone seeking to understand, and deprogram themselves from a culture obsessed with diets and thinness.
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
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Graphic: Eating disorder
I wanted to like this book so much. After looking into it, there really isn't very many books tackling the topic. My husband and I read it together and found it useful more for the fact that we did not like much of it. It created some great conversations and shined light on how inundated our children our by diet culture and the culture of thin is "good" fat is "lazy, bad." It helped us openly talk about our own histories and biases and plan for how we can work through all this with our own kids. The booked lacked in solid science, felt very anectodical, and practical advice and has us on the lookout for better books around the topic.
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Such useful background and knowledge. I’m so glad I read this and have more resources to hold these conversations with my kids and community.