All Shapes and Sizes: Parenting Your Overweight Child (Today's Parent Book)

Rating:
Summary: Insightful and emotional, more "feel" than "food"
Review: Good book, very valuable when trying to emotionally support a child with a weight problem. The book includes tips on getting the family involved in healthy activities, how to allow your child to express their feelings without criticism, and how to overcome obstacles in the classroom, organized sports, and with friends - and how labelling a child can be harmful - overweight is a condition your child may have, but not necessarily "is". There wasn't a lot of helpful dietary information, and I feel there was a little apathy on part of the authors, an attitude of acceptance of overweight as long as the child doesn't feel that they are being treated poorly by peers. Almost as though it's OK to be fat, if your child has "nice" friends. Regardless, I still would have bought this book because it did offer practical & sensitive thoughts on connecting with your overweight child, but do consider additional sources for dietary information.

Rating:
Summary: Insightful and emotional, more "feel" than "food"
Review: Good book, very valuable when trying to emotionally support a child with a weight problem. The book includes tips on getting the family involved in healthy activities, how to allow your child to express their feelings without criticism, and how to overcome obstacles in the classroom, organized sports, and with friends - and how labelling a child can be harmful - overweight is a condition your child may have, but not necessarily "is". There wasn't a lot of helpful dietary information, and I feel there was a little apathy on part of the authors, an attitude of acceptance of overweight as long as the child doesn't feel that they are being treated poorly by peers. Almost as though it's OK to be fat, if your child has "nice" friends. Regardless, I still would have bought this book because it did offer practical & sensitive thoughts on connecting with your overweight child, but do consider additional sources for dietary information.