Non-Diet & HAES Parenting Tips | Raise Body-Positive Kids

Non-Diet & HAES Parenting Tips to Raise Body-Positive Kids

Even though our culture often promotes dieting and weight-shaming, parents have the power to do things differently. This eBook turns decades of research on weight, body image, and health into practical strategies for responding to diet talk, fat talk, and appearance-focused comments—supporting your child’s confidence, self-esteem, and relationship with food.

Using non-diet, HAES®-informed approaches, you can help your child build resilience, trust their body, and develop healthy habits while modeling self-compassion and body acceptance yourself. Every supportive interaction makes a lasting difference.

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Raise Kids and Teens With a Positive Body Image and a Healthy Relationship With Food

This eBook is custom-created for parents, caregivers, and grandparents who want to support children without dieting, weight stigma, or body shame. It’s packed with evidence-based guidance, real-life scripts, and practical tools you can use immediately to respond to fat talk, diet talk, and body-shaming comments in everyday life.

Everything Parents Need to Know to Raise Body-Positive Kids:

Fact Sheets about weight stigma, diet culture, kids and diets, and more
Non-Diet Parent Guidelines
Scripts for responding to fat talk, diet talk, and body-related comments
Guidance on what to say and what not to say when discussing bodies, food, and health

The BEST way to help your child grow up free from body hate, harmful dieting patterns, and unnecessary guilt around food.

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Why a Non-Diet Approach Matters for Kids and Teens

Children and teens are constantly exposed to messages about dieting, weight, and appearance. Research shows that dieting in childhood or adolescence is linked to:

Disordered eating
Body dissatisfaction
Long-term mental and physical health risks

A non-diet approach, guided by Health At Every Size® (HAES®), helps children:

Build confidence and self-esteem independent of weight
Develop a balanced, guilt-free relationship with food
Resist societal pressures around dieting and body ideals
Focus on healthy behaviors like movement, sleep, and mindfulness without linking them to weight

By parenting with a non-diet, HAES-informed mindset, you’re giving your child tools for resilience, body acceptance, and lifelong healthy habits, while nurturing a positive, supportive parent-child relationship.

This eBook includes:

Fact Sheets

Weight Stigma
Weight Science
Health At Every Size®
Diet Culture
Kids & Diets
Non-Diet Health
Non-Diet Eating
Family Meals
Objectification

Guidelines

Non-Diet Parenting
Talking About Fat
Talking About Food
If Your Child Has High BMI
Body Acceptance
A Policy of Body Respect
Family Meals

Scripts

Diet Advice
Food Police
“You’ve Gained/Lost Weight”
“I’ve Gained/Lost Weight”
Comments About Other People’s Weight
When Your Child is Body Bashing
Little Kids Commenting on Fat Bodies
When Doctors Talk About Your Child’s Weight
Child Script – Responding to Body Shaming

Letters

To Your Child
To Your Co-Parent(s)
To Your Family
To Your Child’s Doctor

Say This/Not That

Compliments
Food Talk
Labeling Food
Fat Talk
Body Talk
Labeling Feelings

Plus

Principles of Health at Every Size®
Principles of Intuitive Eating
Prepare Yourself To Talk About Weight & Diets
How To Use The Scripts
Book Recommendations

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What You’ll Learn

This digital book gives parents practical, research-backed tools to raise children with:

Positive body image
Healthy, guilt-free eating habits
Confidence, self-esteem, and resilience
Skills to navigate real-life conversations about bodies and food

It’s a hands-on resource you can use again and again at home, in therapy sessions, or when talking with teachers, family, or healthcare providers.

Real-Life Scripts to Respond to Diet and Fat Talk:

Responding to your child’s body-shaming comments in a way that validates feelings while discouraging harmful messages
Handling diet talk from friends, peers, or family members
Addressing comments about your own body or other people’s bodies
Communicating with healthcare providers who focus on weight instead of overall health

Using these scripts consistently helps your child feel heard, respected, and empowered while reinforcing a body-positive, non-diet environment at home.

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Details & How to Use

42-page PDF digital book
View on any device or print at home (FedEx, UPS Store, Staples, etc.)
Use the worksheets, scripts, and fact sheets again and again
Perfect for parents, grandparents, counselors, dietitians, therapists, and anyone supporting kids’ health and body image

Note: Please respect copyright; do not distribute. Contact us for professional licensing.

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Why Parents Love This Guide

Gives parents ready-to-use language and scripts for real-life conversations
Provides clear guidance on what to say and what to avoid
Supports non-diet, body-positive parenting grounded in science
Helps children develop healthy relationships with food and their bodies
This eBook equips parents to confidently guide children and teens toward self-acceptance, confidence, and resilience without dieting, guilt, or body shame.