Hold tight folks, this is a good one! This week, I’m chatting with Molly Forbes, journalist, campaigner, author of Body Happy Kids and founding director of the Body Happy Organisation.
Molly gives loads of practical and pragmatic advice for how you can begin to open up conversations with your school to stomp out diet culture and support positive body esteem. It's such a helpful episode for anyone who has wondered whether or not schools are undoing some of the things that you're doing at home to protect your kids' relationship with food and their bodies.
Some of the topics we cover include:
- How influential schools really are when it comes to supporting/disrupting body esteem.
- Where diet culture creeps up in schools in areas like school uniform policy.
- How we can open up conversations with schools about diet culture, and how teachers can get their schools on board with an anti diet culture policy.
- How you can begin to tackle food policing policies.
- National weight measurement programme and why you should opt your kiddo out.
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Show notes:
- Follow Laura on Instagram | Twitter
- Follow Molly on Instagram
- Follow Don’t Salt My Game on Instagram
- Check out Molly’s Instagram post school uniform policies
- Check out Dieticians 4 Teachers on Instagram
- Laura’s Website
- Body Happy Org Website
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