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This whole obsession with anatomy/bathroom words is developmentally normal. And parents and teacher response does matter. In doing some reading on the topic, responses by experts range from celebrating bathroom words with pianos and drums to enforcing the proper terms in the proper environment with negative consequences. Somewhere in the middle, I think, is where I fall. I am not one to have a concert celebrating words, nor is it a big enough offense to land a three-year-old in time out.
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I get so excited when I hear these stories. If fat positivity was reaching kids ten years ago, imagine who it's reaching now! We could be supporting a whole new generation of kids to practice Health At Every Size ®, to know that dieting is not the answer, to know that their bodies are perfect just as they are!
I think this is definitely happening (and if you're a young'un who reads this blog, please feel free to comment and say, "hi!"), but at the same time, I feel like there is even more pressure on fat kids nowadays to change their bodies. This is nearly unfathomable to me, because as a kid growing up mostly in the '80s, I felt so much shame and pressure around my fatness, and it's hard to imagine it being worse. But according to people who ignore statistics, childhood obesity is on the rise.
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Today our three year-old had homework. It was a dry-erase board with the alphabet printed at the top and copybook style lines to guide a child in writing his letters. He was super excited to have homework so I gave him free rein to write whichever letters he wanted. I took the rare opportunity to read the newspaper.
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Hanging up a lovely painting by a 3-year-old with a magnet that reads, "If we are what we eat then I'm fast, cheap, and easy," just feels wrong. While you may have more grown-up magnets in your life, I'm offering up a super easy tutorial to make an alternative for yourself or as an awesome gift for the parents, grandparents, or other kiddo artwork-displaying people in your life.
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