Key Points
As a fat parent, I'm trying my best to teach my children about people's different bodies.I teach them that foods aren't inherently healthy and unhealthy.Sometimes.
Now, as a white, fat, able-bodied woman, I am making it my mission to teach my 3- and 7-year-old children about the beauty of different body types...
When my children were learning to communicate verbally and were curious about the world around them, they would lay across my belly and remark on the texture and size: "Your belly is so soft and fat, Momma."..
When my second grader commented on the eating habits or styles of her fellow students, I used it as a teaching opportunity. I explained that kids came from different cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds..
I am only human, and sometimes I don't love my body, but I do not speak unkindly about its appearance or size especially in front of my kids...
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