Author Archive
Body Image and Young Children
May 25 2017- chriscalland
- 0 Comments
Body Image is a big issue these days and this blog aims to tackle it as well as to provide parents with thoughts and ideas.
A healthy girl is standing in front of a mirror pinching her stomach. She turns sideways and breathes in…she looks upset and makes a face at her reflection.
‘At Nursery someone said I was fat. I wish I didn’t have a fat tummy. I’d like to look like Lily, she’s pretty’
The girl is 3.
10 years ago, the idea that pre-school children would be anxious about how they looked was almost unheard of but for many parents this sort of comment from their child has now become the new normal.
