A companion book to the Healthy Body Image curriculum for parents and educators
Promoting healthy body image, eating, fitness, nutrition, and weight in developing children.
Kathy Kater
Based on the same Model for Healthy Body Image used in the Healthy Body Image; Teaching Kids to Eat and Love Their Bodies Too! curriculum guide.
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FROM THE AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION TO Real Kids Come in All Sizes
“A popular saying suggests that for a cultural problem to be perpetuated, all it takes is for enlightened people to do nothing. There are many harsh or dangerous factors that may affect our children over which we have no control and may not be able to do anything about. This is no longer true when it comes to arming our children to resist negative body-image messages and eating habits.” —Kathy Kater
Body angst is rampant in America. The wish to be thin or lean at all costs provides the seeds for a lifetime of body dissatisfaction, non-stop counterproductive dieting, and debilitating eating disorders. Meanwhile, as efforts to eliminate fat have consumed us, America has become the fattest nation on earth!
At a time when they should feel secure in their body's growth, too many American children become anxious about size and weight and begin to eat in ways that contribute to the very problems they hope to avoid. Negative body image and weight problems are extremely difficult to reverse once established, and can be devastating to the self-esteem of developing bodies and egos.
Long overdue, Real Kids Come in All Sizes challenges the toxic myths that promote body image and weight concerns in our culture. Building a foundation for lifelong health, parents can use these lessons to help their children:
Eat well and be active
Accept size diversity in themselves and others
Value health and well being over image
Be comfortable in their developing bodies
Resist damaging cultural messages
Develop a strong identity and realistic role models
Parents today need help to foster positive body esteem, self confidence and healthy choices in their children. In Real Kids Come in All Sizes the author, a leading psychotherapist specializing in the treatment of body image and eating disorders, shows parents how to provide their children with a blueprint for healthy choices and attitudes.
Leigh Cohn, Editor-in-Chief of Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention described Real Kids Come in All Sizes in this way:
"Real Kids Come in All Sizes is an invaluable book for parents and educators. Kater, whose Healthy Body Image curriculum is one of the most widely-used body image books in schools, has taken the most crucial, current ideas in the prevention literature and has made them accessible for adult readers. She presents the cultural realities for children growing up today and blends these observations with solid, essential lessons that grown-ups can share with kids. They will not find a better book for preventing eating disorders and body image problems."
Real Kids Come in All Sizes was written in response to the need for parents and other adults to learn the same healthy body image concepts that students were learning in the classroom. This 250-page book is an easy-to-read, friendly guide that helps parents to provide a supportive environment for boys and girls at home, and auxiliary school staff to reinforce the Healthy Body Image lessons school-wide.
WHAT OTHERS HAVE SAID ABOUT REAL KIDS COME IN ALL SIZES
“Real Kids Come in All Sizes shows how to provide children with a blueprint for healthy lifestyle choices and attitudes. Written for parents, this book is also an excellent resource for professionals. Long overdue, Real Kids Come in All Sizes gives parents, as well as professionals, the tools they need to help boys and girls feel at ease with the bodies they were born with, while motivating them to be healthy for health's-not beauty's-sake.” —Karin Kratrina, PhD, RD, Clinical Advisory Board, NEDO (National Eating Disorders Association)
“For years dietitians believed that making adults feel dissatisfied with their bodies would motivate them to lose weight. Interestingly, as stigmatization of the obese has increased so has the prevalence of obesity! It is imperative that we not repeat this mistake with children. … Kathy Kater is passionate about making us stop and think about what we are doing, and what we should be doing! If you work with children, or if you have children, you will want to read this book.” —Joanne P. Ikeda, MA, RD, is Co-Director of the Center for Weight and Health at the University of California, Berkeley.
“Kathy Kater's Healthy Body Image curriculum is a wonderful program, and the Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York has urged its use in our elementary schools. For many students, these are their favorite classes... Real Kids Come in All Sizes is the perfect supplement, as now parents can be educated in how to support the curriculum concepts, and most importantly, how to help their children be healthy and feel comfortable with their bodies.” —Shayna Oppen, CSW, Director , Dept. of Student Health Services, Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York.
“I LOVE this book... I think that Real Kids Come in All Sizes should be required reading for all new parents. I am certain that if this were the case the incidence of obesity and eating disorders would decrease. …Kathy's book brings insight and understanding to an issue that is very complicated and perplexing for most of us. It gives very practical advice and easy-to-follow lessons.” —Kitty Weston, LICSW, President, The Anna Westin Foundation.
