Back-to-school shopping time gives an opportunity for body image issues to flare! Sometimes the issues are our own--we may project our own body image issues onto our kids, fearing they will follow in our footsteps as their size or shape changes. Or, it may be that our...
Help Son with body image
Do As I Say AND As I Do 4: Observe and Respond to Your Son’s Words and Actions About Body Image
Do As I Say AND As I Do: 4 Tips to Help Your Son Have Healthy Body Image Tip 4: Observe and respond to your son’s words and actions about body image. This post is part four of a four-part series. Another story from my teaching days. The topic was marriage. I...
Do as I Say & Do: 4 Tips to Help Your Son Have Healthy Body Image
This is the first post in a four part series titled: 4 Tips to Help Your Son Have Healthy Body Image. Your son understands the world and what it means to be a man, in large part, through you, dad. He sees you driving in traffic and reacting to that guy who just cut...
Compared to Him: Helping Son With Body Image
Women are beasts at this comparison game. We can mentally assess our rank in a room full of women in seconds. And we do it reflexively. It takes mental effort to stop this destructive habit now that I see it for what it really is. So, I'm not surprised at how hard...