Episode Details

How can parents support their children to eat healthily without slipping into diet talk or passing on their own body worries?

 

In this episode of Just One Thing for Parents, Dr Anna Colton — clinical psychologist and eating disorder specialist — shares what decades of experience have taught her about food, families and children's wellbeing.

 

We talk about:

- Why the language we use about food matters more than we think

- How to model a balanced, relaxed approach at mealtimes

- Supporting children and teens to self-regulate, rather than laying down rigid rules

- Why acceptance, not body positivity, is the goal that helps children thrive

 

Anna also shares her "one shift that changes everything": becoming aware of your own patterns around food and body image, so you have the choice not to pass them on.

Listen now to hear how you can raise children with a healthy, confident relationship to eating.