Embrace educational tools to teach kids about healthy body image.
NEDA understands that issues surrounding eating disorders come up around the dinner table, on the playground, in the media, in dressing rooms and more. So we are committed to reaching kids in the classroom and teaching children and young adults about positive self-esteem and the importance of healthy body image. Current curricula include:
- Healthy Body Image — Stories and activities for students grade 4-6.
- Coming soon..... “How I Look Journal” – by Nan and Molly Dellheim — a guided journal gently encouraging young women and girls to a place of self-trust.
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Healthy Body Image – Teaching kids to eat and love their bodies too!
This curriculum, now in its second edition, helps educators empower students in grades 4-6 to form a foundation for acceptance of their bodies, based on recognition of what they can and cannot control with regard to body size and shape. Through stories and activities, students are prepared and empowered to resist unhealthy and unrealistic cultural pressures regarding body image, and are inspired to develop a practical understanding of healthy eating.
“This updated edition of the most widely-used curriculum for preventing disordered eating and body image issues is even better than the original. Kater’s orientation is rooted in the most successful prevention programs and research. She presents a resource that should be incorporated into every fourth, fifth, and sixth grade classroom.”
— Leigh Cohn, Editor-in-Chief
Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention
Personal appearance and self-image have long been of interest to developing girls and boys, but never so much as in recent years. Affecting children as young as six, body-angst, poor eating habits, fitness and weight concerns are extremely difficult to reverse once established. The results erode self-esteem, self confidence, and health, and consume time, energy, and attention. The Healthy Body Image curriculum can help.
- Since its original publication in 1998, outcome studies using Healthy Body Image have been very encouraging.
- These lessons were among the first of their kind to demonstrate significant, measurable improvement in weight related attitudes among pubescent children.
- Healthy Body Image is recommended by the U.S. Department of Health, Office of Women’s Health in its BodyWise information packet for educators and is in use in hundreds of schools across the country.
Lessons are formulated as antidotes to develop resiliency in the face of toxic cultural myths that encourage body image, eating, fitness, nutrition and weight problems. Ten carefully planned lessons teach students to:
- Develop an identity based on inner strengths, not on appearance.
- Gain historical perspective on current unhealthy body image attitudes.
- Understand normal weight gain during puberty.
- Respect genetic diversity of body size and shape.
- Become aware of the dangers of dieting.
- Develop incentives for healthy eating and active lifestyles.
- Think critically about media messages.
- Resist unhealthy cultural pressures regarding weight and dieting.
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"How I Look Journal”
by Nan and Molly Dellheim
A guided journal gently encouraging young women and girls to a place of self-trust. - Coming soon
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