I was interviewed for this yahoo.com article posted today about the opinion of one “Chinese mother” (her label) on the difference between Western parenting and Chinese parenting. How self esteem is really cultivated is certainly in question. “Western parents are concerned about their children’s psyches,” Chua wrote in her recent Wall Street Journal article. “Chinese [...]
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As a father to a 20-month-old girl, this just may be the most important book I’ve read since becoming a parent. Do something special for the girls in your life and read this book. — Chris Singer, Book Dads, reviewing Good Girls Don’t Get Fat: How Weight Obsession is Messing Up Our Girls & How [...]
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 [...]
Here it is! Dr. Robyn Silverman's First-Ever Interview on Good Girls Don't Get Fat: How Weight Obsession is Messing Up Our Girls and How We can Help Them Thrive Despite It. It's that time of year. The time of year when girls (and many boys too) are thinking about how they look and how others [...]
A HUGE step forward or back? ABC Family Show on Weight Loss Camp ABC Family is debuting a show called HUGE on Monday night and we are all waiting to see how the show is received and what we’re all going to think of it. As a body image expert, the author of Good Girls [...]
Dr. Robyn Silverman, body image expert, was on The Tyra show talking about women, body image and life after pregnancy. After pregnancy, many women have trouble accepting the changes in their bodies. Loose skin, stretch marks, and extra weight can make new Moms feel inferior given the definition of beauty put out by media and [...]
Can Dropping Acid Can Help Girls Feel Good About Themselves? Selma Blair has the Answer and…everything you want to know about LSD Dr. Robyn J.A. Silverman Well folks, it looks I could be out of work—I mean, who needs a body image expert to help teens when all we need is to tell girls to [...]
Do magazine diet articles make an impact on girls’ body image? In a 2007 issue of the Journal of Pediatrics, researchers from the University of Minnesota suggest that when teen girls read articles about diet and weight loss, it could have unhealthy consequences years later. Magazines feature impossibly thin supermodels next to “back-to-school” diet plans [...]
“Experience is what you get is when you didn’t get what you want…We send our kids out to play football or soccer or swimming or whatever it is… for indirect learning..we don’t actually want them to learn football… We send our kids out to learn much more important things; teamwork, sportsmanship, perseverance, etc. etc.” –Randy [...]
How can we build up our daughters’ self confidence? Parents can do so much to help our daughters’ thrive. You’ve read volume 1. Here’s volume 2 of raising strong, confident daughters: (6) Catch your child “being good:” We often are quick to jump when our child is exhibiting poor behavior, however, when our child is [...]
