Dr. Robyn Silverman on The Today Show Talking about Body Image & Her New Book!

Dr. Robyn sat down with Meredith Vieira on The Today Show to talk about body image, her book Good Girls Don’t Get Fat, and the alarming trends of low body esteem in girls. A recent poll shows that 95 percent of girls between the ages of 16 and 21 want to change their bodies in [...]

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Walking Your Talk: Showing Your Values Even When Your Kids Aren’t Looking

February 1, 2013 Character Education

“Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold — but so does a hard-boiled egg.” ~Author Unknown As parents and teachers we often zone out when we get a moment alone.  It’s normal– I do it too.  I am far from perfect, lose my temper [...]

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Heavy choices: Would you put your 7 year old on a diet?

January 15, 2013 Body Image

This morning I was on the set up for a segment on Dara-Lynn Weiss- the mother who was made famous for publicly putting her daughter, age 7, on a diet. Her daughter’s doctor had told Dara-Lynn that her daughter was obese and was immediately put on a strict diet of limited foods and counting calories. [...]

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Parents: 5 Ways for Our Children to Honor The Victims of the Sandy Hook Shooting

December 21, 2012 Parenting tips

A mother and her son, probably about 8 years old, came over to us in the parking lot of the mall the other day. “Excuse me, I’d like to give you this.” “What’s this for, Honey?” “I’m giving out 26 boxes of candy as a Random Act of Kindness in honor of each of the [...]

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Parents; How to Talk to Children about the Connecticut School Shooting

December 14, 2012 Parenting tips

We have all heard the horrific news by now. At 9:40 this morning, a masked gunman named Adam Lanza entered Sandy Hook elementary school and fired a gun around 100 times. He killed 26 people, 6 adults and 20 children under the age of 8 before killing himself. Since then it’s been hard to concentrate [...]

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The Many Sides of Girls: From Spiderman to Princesses and Everything In Between

December 11, 2012 Parenting

The first thing my daughter, Tallie, wanted to do this morning was go downstairs and have me read her two Spiderman stories from her brother’s new Adventures of Spiderman book he received for Hanukkah last night.  So that’s what I did.  It was from that book that I read her a good night story before [...]

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I messed up, Mom & Dad! 10 Ways to Teach Children to Embrace Their Mistakes

November 28, 2012 Character Education

It may seem counter-intuitive, but kids need to fall on their face a lot during childhood. It’s part of learning. A parent got in touch with me recently and told me with some pride that she is the infamous “helicopter parent” that she’s heard me talk about on my blog and in the media. “I [...]

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Our Thoughts Are With You: Victims of Hurricane Sandy

November 1, 2012 Character Education

As I live in NJ, we have seen and heard much of the devastation due to the most recent storm.  Hurricane Sandy lived up to the predictions.  Our thoughts and prayers are with you, our neighbors, and all those who suffered loss due to flood, falling trees and power outages. My hope is that we [...]

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Amanda Todd: Teen Ends Her Life After Relentless Battle with Bullying

October 12, 2012 Bullying

I’m stuck. What’s left of me now…nothing stops.  I have nobody. I need someone. Amanda Todd, a once, promising happy young Canadian girl committed bullycide on Wednesday after relentless, senseless attacks– physical, emotional and psychological– over several years followed her from town to town. Her horrible story is hauntingly told in a youtube video with [...]

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TV Anchor, Jennifer Livingston, Called Fat: Fights Back Against Her Body Bully

October 3, 2012 Body Image

(Note; My Today Show Health Report Interview on this topic included below) The internet blew up yesterday with applause for Jennifer Livingston, a TV anchor in Wisconsin, who spoke out about fat hatred and what I call, “body bullying” after receiving a derogatory email from a viewer about her weight. The viewer’s email read; “Obesity [...]

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Lady Gaga Vogue Cover Airbrushed Beyond Recognition: My Interview

September 7, 2012 Body Image

I was recently interviewed about Lady Gaga’s Vogue Cover. Perhaps people feel that all’s fair in love and fashion, but the Lady Gaga Vogue cover photo speaks much more that a thousand words. See the video of her photo-shoot here. When a Superstar like Gaga is known for encouraging every young person to be proud [...]

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