How do my eating habits and behavior influence my children?

How do my eating habits and behavior influence my children?

A ton of my patients will say, "I remember the first time I thought my stomach was sticking out, it's when I saw my mom look at herself in the mirror, pull her stomach in and say, Oh my God, am I getting fat?" You have that little five year old that is observing her mother. If her mother is preoccupied by the facts of her body, and thinks that she's too fat, the child is internalizing that perspective of her mom. As a parent, what you can do to influence your child is for you to have a healthy body image.