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Embrace Kids

How You Can Help Your Kids to Love and Celebrate Their Bodies
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Embrace Kids by Zali Yager and Taryn Brumfitt is a guide aimed at young readers that focuses on promoting body positivity and self-acceptance. It offers practical advice and strategies to help children develop a healthy relationship with their bodies and build self-esteem. Through engaging content, the authors empower kids to embrace themselves just as they are, fostering emotional well-being and resilience.
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You might enjoy this book if you're looking to inspire young readers to develop a positive body image and embrace self-love. It's designed to encourage children to navigate societal pressures with confidence and cultivate a healthy perspective on their appearance and identity. Perfect for anyone interested in promoting a nurturing and inclusive conversation around health and wellness for kids.

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The essential body image handbook for parents of children and teens by powerhouse change-maker and body positivity activist Taryn Brumfitt and Dr Zali Yager.

Imagine a world where young people don't feel held back by their bodies. Where we appreciate each other for who we are and what we do rather than what we look like.

Body image, and the associated issues of weight, food and physical activity, are hot topics in our families. How did we get to this place of constant criticism about our own bodies, and how can we get out of it?

To coincide with the release of her ground-breaking new documentary Embrace Kids, leading body image activist and powerhouse change-maker Taryn Brumfitt has collaborated with body image expert Dr Zali Yager on one of the most important health issues of our time - helping our children and teens feel comfortable about, and confident in, their bodies.

With chapters for parents on understanding your own journey, appreciating your own body and creating a positive home environment, as well as tackling diet and fashion trends, friendship issues and social media challenges, Embrace Kids is full of evidence-informed suggestions and supportive, practical advice.

This book will teach you everything you need to know to build your kids' body image, to wholeheartedly embrace their uniqueness, and to steer them on a path to body confidence that has the power to liberate them for life.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781761046575

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 August 2022

Country: Australia

Imprint: Penguin Random House Australia

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 272

About the Author

Taryn Brumfitt (Author) Taryn Brumfitt is an award-winning filmmaker, bestselling author and internationally sought-after keynote speaker. Recently named 2023 Australian of the Year, she is a fiercely passionate advocate for social change and her message has reached more than 200 million people around the world. Taryn is the founder of the Body Image Movement, director of the inspiring documentaries EMBRACE and EMBRACE KIDS, and author of four books. Her global crusade to help people embrace their bodies has seen her recognised by UN Women, Amy Poehler's Smart Girls and the Geena Davis Institute. Taryn has delivered more than 100 keynote addresses, and her talk at Google HQ in Silicon Valley was live-streamed to every Google office in the world. In 2018, she was recognised in the Australian Financial Review 100 Women of Influence awards and received the SA Award for Excellence in Women's Leadership from Women and Leadership Australia. She was also crowned EY Entrepreneur of the Year, South Australia, and has been named among GE's highest-rated speakers. With a powerful, universal message and unwavering commitment to her cause, Taryn Brumfitt is a true force to be reckoned with. Zali Yager (Author) Dr Zali Yager is the Executive Director of the Body Confident Collective and Honorary Associate Professor in the Institute for Health and Sport at Victoria University. Zali has a health and physical education background, and is an internationally recognised expert in the body image space, known for figuring out 'what works' to build body image in school and community settings and for her work in the Body Confident Mums project. A 2021 Westpac Social Change Fellow who has presented her work around the world, Zali is ridiculously passionate and driven by the desire to make this research matter and create a safer body image environment for the next generation. Zali is also a mum of three, and when she's not at her computer, you will usually find her at the beach.

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